Deeply familiar with the politics of medieval
hagiography, Mooney sifts through the "sources closest to Clare's own life" (1), disentangling these fragments from medieval
hagiography and later historical "Clares" to present what she modestly terms a "bare-bones profile" (8).
The Hasidic movement that originated in the Polish lands in the second half of the 18th century, and that to this day remains a thriving phenomenon throughout the diaspora and Israel, placed
hagiography at the centre of its popular activity.
Then a staff-member of ICNY myself, thus present for the exhibition's gala opening in November 2003, (1) this intensely dialogical project by esteemed letter-artists Karen Gorst, Neil Yerman, and Mohamed Zakariya triggered memory of my own faith's narratives of encounter with the holy as it provoked questions about the holy as understood in other traditions--and raised possibilities for simultaneous lessons in aesthetics, ethics, comparative theology,
hagiography, and promotion of positive interreligious understanding.
Nahman of Bratslav,
hagiography with footnotes: edifying tales and the writing of history in Hasidism, from prophetess to madwoman: the displacement of female spirituality in the post-Sabbatian era, on women in Hasidism: S.
By appealing to the reader's sensory imagination, Christian texts endowed phenomena like relics, saints' bodies in
hagiography, and saints' presence in icons with a visual and tactile presence.
of Texas football legend Freddie Steinmark (194971) with the sort of on-the-nose sincerity that transforms biography Into
hagiography. Written and directed by Angelo Pizzo, whose credits as a screenwriter ("Hooslers," "Rudy," "The Game of Their Lives") define him as a specialist In inspirational sports sagas, this film Is not easily categorized as faith-based entertainment, despite repeated references to Steinmark's daily Mass attendance and a heavily dramatic scene involving prayer.
He is thoughtful, suggesting sound explanations without seeming speculative, and just about avoiding
hagiography.
Kuefler, Mathew, The Making and Unmaking of a Saint:
Hagiography and Memory in the Cult of Gerald of Aurillac (Middle Ages), Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014; cloth; pp.
These fourteen essays include how much we know about Jutta and Hildegard at Disibodeberg and Rupertsberg, reform in Germany from 1080 to 1180, Elisabeth of Schonan, the schools and the critiques, claims to Hildegard's prophetic authority, Hildegard's musical work uncovered, musical
hagiography, the theory of repentance, medical magical miracles, and the history of reception of Hildegard of Bingen, Particularly interesting are the notes on Hildegard's unknown, private language and writing.
I FOUND John Burton's
hagiography of Tony Blair very interesting but also a little sad (The Journal, May 6).