Overview

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.”

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Author:   Marco Papasidero (University of Palermo) ,  Dean Accardi (Connecticut College, Department of History and Global Islamic Studies Program) ,  Emilia Jamroziak (Professor of Medieval Religious History, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds)
Publisher:   Arc Humanities Press
Imprint:   Arc Humanities Press
Edition:   New edition
ISBN:  

9781641893947

ISBN 10:   164189394
Pages:   152
Publication Date:   31 October 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Introduction, by Dean Accardi, Emilia Jamroziak, and Marco Papasidero Chapter 1. Communal and Individual Monastic Identity in Gregory the Great’s Dialogues, by Nikolas Hoel Chapter 2. Hagiography and Monastic Legitimacy in the Translation of St Helena’s Relics to Hautvillers, by Marco Papasidero Chapter 3. The Many Hagiographical Identities of the Chinese Buddhist Nun Zhujin, by Jennifer Eichman Chapter 4. Hagiography Beyond the Saints: Redefining Genre and Kashmiri Identity through Sanctifying Narrative, by Dean Accardi Chapter 5. A Re-membered Community: The Myth of Śaṅkara and the Making of the Smārtas, by Nabanjan Maitra Chapter 6. The Ascetic and the Ecstatic: Examples of Identity Construction in the Rāmānandī Sampradāya, by Daniela Bevilacqua Conclusions. Negotiating the Holy across Time and Place, by Sita Steckel Index

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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.

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