The Monastic Dimension of Identity Politics: Global Case Studies from the Premodern Period - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 164189394X ISBN 13 : 9781641893947

Editeur : Arc Humanities Press, 2024

Synopsis

This volume comparatively explores how members of “monastic” communities, broadly understood, developed practical strategies for the construction of identity across a range of religious traditions in the greater regions of premodern Europe and Asia. In particular, it seeks to understand how the production, distribution, and reception of hagiographic material (written, visual, and performative) served as a tool for the implementation of “monastic” dynamics of legitimation. This is accomplished by pursuing and developing a two-fold approach. At an empirical level, the volume expands our scholarly understanding of the cross-cultural processes that characterize religious communities’ notions of identity. At a meta-level, it furthers a re-evaluation of our taxonomy as it challenges established notions of categories such as “monk/monastic” and “hagiography.”

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Marco Papasidero is Assistant Professor of History of Christianity and Churches at the University of Palermo.

Dean Accardi is Assistant Professor of History at Connecticut College.

Emilia Jamroziak is Professor of Medieval Religious History at the University of Leeds.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Arc Humanities Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 164189394X
• ISBN 13: 9781641893947
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 144
• Éditeur: Papasidero Marco, Accardi Dean, Jamroziak Emilia
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