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The essays in this volume examine the range of pilgrimage practices in Graeco-Roman antiquity and the early Church. From healing to oracles, from collective civic delegations to individual pilgrims seeking salvation, from localized sacred topographies to empire-wide travel, this book shows the importance of pilgrimage in pagan antiquity and its ancestry to later Christian practice. - ;This book presents a range of case-studies of pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman antiquity, drawing on a wide variety of evidence. It rejects the usual reluctance to accept the category of pilgrimage in pagan polytheism

Pilgrims and pilgrimages --- Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages --- Pèlerins et pèlerinages --- Pèlerins et pèlerinages chrétiens --- History. --- Histoire --- Pèlerins et pèlerinages --- Pèlerins et pèlerinages chrétiens --- Processions, Religious --- Travelers --- Voyages and travels --- Shrines --- History --- Greece --- Rome --- Pilgrimages and pilgrims --- Spiritual tourism

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While the modern world has largely dismissed the figure of the saint as a throwback, we remain fascinated by excess, marginality, transgression, and porous subjectivity-categories that define the saint. In this collection, Françoise Meltzer and Jas Elsner bring together top scholars from across the humanities to reconsider our denial of saintliness and examine how modernity returns to the lure of saintly grace, energy, and charisma. Addressing such problems as how saints are made, the use of saints by political and secular orders, and how holiness is personified, Saints takes us on a photo tour of Graceland and the cult of Elvis and explores the changing political takes on Joan of Arc in France. It shows us the self-fashioning of culture through the reevaluation of saints in late-antique Judaism and Counter-Reformation Rome, and it questions the political intent of underlying claims to spiritual attainment of a Muslim sheikh in Morocco and of Sephardism in Israel. Populated with the likes of Francis of Assisi, Teresa of Avila, and Padre Pio, this book is a fascinating inquiry into the status of saints in the modern world.

Christian saints. --- Saints --- Holiness. --- Holy, The --- Perfection --- Righteousness --- Sanctification --- Canonization --- Attributes. --- Religious aspects --- Christian saints --- Holiness --- 235.3 --- Attributes --- Hagiografie --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Religious studies --- Christian church history --- religion, religious studies, saints, saint, christianity, christians, faith, essay collection, humanities, saintliness, holiness, joan of arc, elvis presley, self-fashioning, cultural study, culture, spirituality, spiritualism, spiritual attainment, resistance, mimicry, bodily transformation, stigmata, exceptionalism, holy, great honor, recognition, veneration, canonization, glory, glorification, acclamation.

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This book explores the many strategies by which elite Greeks and Romans resisted the cultural and political hegemony of the Roman Empire in ways that avoided direct confrontation or simple warfare. By resistance is meant a range of responses including 'opposition', 'subversion', 'antagonism', 'dissent', and 'criticism' within a multiplicity of cultural forms from identity-assertion to polemic. Although largely focused on literary culture, its implications can be extended to the world of visual and material culture. Within the volume a distinguished group of scholars explores topics such as the affirmation of identity via language choice in epigraphy; the use of genre (dialogue, declamation, biography, the novel) to express resistant positions; identity negotiation in the scintillating and often satirical Greek essays of Lucian; and the place of religion in resisting hegemonic power.

Government, Resistance to --- Civilization --- Politics and literature --- History. --- Roman influences. --- Literature --- Literature and politics --- Civil resistance --- Non-resistance to government --- Political resistance --- Resistance to government --- Political science --- Political violence --- Insurgency --- Nonviolence --- Revolutions --- Political aspects --- Rome --- History --- Politics and government --- Politics and culture --- Classical literature --- Political aspects. --- History and criticism.

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