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Saints, their places, the rituals of their veneration - the heroes and martyrs they represent or to whom they are often connected with - and the beliefs in their powers have often been described as being counter-thematic to the constructive issues of modern society in our times. However, in the Middle East - and certainly this is true for many other world regions and other world religions - local saints, Jewish, Christian and Islamic, have gained a very ambiguous status in religious movements, political struggles and events of social re-construction. In the case of Islam, perhaps more openly, modernists and fundamentalists alike attempt to abolish or to re-formulate the agenda of venerating the saints. However, at the same time saints and their localities have become a sort of overcharged symbolic incidence in the modern presence of Islam, in politics, in the media and - perhaps on a more hidden ground - in the struggle of ideas. In this volume historians, islamologists, anthropologists and sociologists give a multiple description of the inherent issues of the unhampered continuity of Muslim saints and their significance. With this volume 5, the Yearbook of the Sociology of Islam is linking empirical research on individual saints (including cases from Egypt, Turkey, Algeria, Syria and Morocco) with the debates around Islam and modernity. Georg Stauth teaches Sociology at the University of Bielefeld, Germany, and has widely published on Islam and Theory of Modernity.

Religion; Spirituality; Sainthood; Islam; Sociology of Religion; Islamic Studies; Sociology --- Islam. --- Islamic Studies. --- Sainthood. --- Sociology of Religion. --- Sociology. --- Spirituality.

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politics of sainthood --- saints --- cults --- canonization --- martyrs --- mystics --- visionaries --- wonder-workers --- miracles --- the miracles of science --- the structure of holiness --- heroic virtue --- harmonics of holiness --- grace --- popes --- church politics --- Pius IX --- the posthumous politics of canonization --- sanctity and sexuality

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Bodily suffering and patient, Christlike attitudes towards that suffering were among the key characteristics of sainthood throughout the medieval period. Drawing on new work in medieval dis/ability studies, this book analyses the meanings given to putative saints' bodily infirmities in late medieval canonization hearings. How was an individual saint's bodily ailment investigated in the inquests, and how did the witnesses (re)construct the saintly candidates' ailments? What meanings were given to infirmity when providing proofs for holiness? This study depicts holy infirmity as an aspect of sanctity that is largely defined within the community, in continual dialogue with devotees, people suffering from doubt, the holy person, and the cultural patterns ascribed to saintly life. Furthermore, it analyses how the meanings given to saints' infirmities influenced and reflected society's attitudes towards bodily ailments in general.

Human body --- Disability studies --- Medicine --- Medicine, Medieval --- Christian saints --- Suffering --- Canonization --- Religious aspects --- Religious aspects. --- Diseases. --- Christianity --- History --- Cult --- Medicine, Medieval. --- Christianity. --- Medieval medicine --- Saints --- Hagiography, canonization, sainthood, dis/ability. --- Sainteté --- Maladie --- Religious studies --- Christian spirituality --- Social problems --- Sociology of health --- anno 1200-1499

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Prophets, saints, martyrs, sages, and seers-one of the richest repositories of lore about such exemplary religious figures belongs to the world's approximately 1.3 billion Muslims. Illuminating some of the most delightful tales in world religious literature, this engaging book is the first truly global overview of Islamic hagiography. John Renard tells of the characters beyond the Qur'an and Hadith, whose stories of piety and service to God and humanity have captured hearts and minds for nearly fourteen hundred years. Renard's thematic approach to the major characters, narratives, social and cultural contexts, and theoretical concepts of this remarkable treasury of tales, based on material ranging from the eighth to the twentieth centuries and from countries ranging from Morocco to Malaysia, provides insight into the ways in which these stories have functioned in the lives of Muslims from diverse cultural, social, economic, and political backgrounds. The book also serves as a useful and evocative tool for approaching the vast geographical and chronological sweep of Islamic civilization.

Islamic hagiography --- Islamic legends --- Legends, Islamic --- History and criticism. --- -Legends, Islamic --- -297.14 --- 297.14 Islam: religieus leven; ascese; devotie --- Islam: religieus leven; ascese; devotie --- Muslim legends --- Legends --- Hagiography --- Hagiographie islamique --- Légendes islamiques --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- 297.14 --- asceticism. --- authority. --- controversy. --- conversion. --- cultural contexts. --- faith. --- gods friends. --- hadith. --- human condition. --- humanity. --- intentional community. --- islam. --- islamic civilization. --- islamic hagiography. --- islamic studies. --- martyrs. --- muslim sainthood. --- muslim saints. --- muslims. --- piety. --- prophets. --- quran. --- religion. --- religious figures. --- religious institutions. --- religious literature. --- religious narratives. --- religious studies. --- revered sites. --- ritual settings. --- road to sanctity. --- saints. --- seers. --- service to god. --- social contexts. --- theology. --- world religions.

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As one of America's most important missionaries, Junípero Serra is widely recognized as the founding father of California's missions. It was for that work that he was canonized in 2015 by Pope Francis. Less well known, however, is the degree to which Junípero Serra embodied the social, religious and artistic currents that shaped Spain and Mexico across the 18th century. Further, Serra's reception in American culture in the 19th and 20th centuries has often been obscured by the controversies surrounding his treatment of California's Indians. This volume situates Serra in the larger Spanish and Mexican contexts within which he lived, learned, and came of age. Offering a rare glimpse into Serra's life, these essays capture the full complexity of cultural trends and developments that paved the way for this powerful missionary to become not only California's most polarizing historical figure but also North America's first Spanish colonial saint.

Indians of North America --- Slavery and the church --- Indians, Treatment of --- Missions, Spanish --- Indians --- Church and slavery --- Church --- Missions --- History --- History. --- Government relations --- Serra, Junípero, --- Serra, Miguel José, --- Junípero, --- Serra, --- Serra, Juníper, --- Serra Ferrer, José, --- Serra Ferrer, Miguel José, --- Ferrer, Miguel José Serra, --- Franciscans --- Alcantarines --- Bernardyni --- Cordeliers --- Discalced Friars Minor --- Família Franciscana --- Frades Menores --- Frailes Menores --- Franciscains --- Franciscains mineurs --- Franciscan Discalceati --- Franciscan Order --- Franciscan Reformati --- Franciszkanie --- Frant︠s︡iskanskiĭ orden --- Frant︠s︡iskant︠s︡y --- Frati minori --- Fratres minores --- Frères mineurs --- Friars, Gray --- Friars Minor --- Gråbrøderne --- Gray Friars --- Grey Friars --- Mala braća --- Minderbrüder --- Minoriten --- Minorites --- O.F.M. --- Observants --- OFM --- Ojcowie Franciszkanie --- Ordem dos Frades Menores --- Ordem dos Franciscanos --- Ordem Franciscana --- Orden de Frailes Menores --- Orden de los Frailes Menores --- Orden Franciscana --- Orden sv. Frant︠s︡iska --- Order of Friars Minor --- Ordine dei Frati Minori --- Ordine dei minori --- Ordre des frères franciscains mineurs --- Ordo Fratrum Minorum --- Reformati --- Reformed Franciscans --- Seraphic Order --- Capuchins --- Conventuals --- Franciscan Recollects --- California --- Junípero Serra, saint, 1713-1784 --- Missions espagnoles -- Mexique --- Missions espagnoles -- Californie (États-Unis) --- Franciscains -- Mexique --- Franciscains -- Californie (États-Unis) --- Indiens d'Amérique -- Californie (États-Unis) --- Actes de congrès --- Iuniperus Serra --- 18th century. --- architecture. --- art. --- bible. --- california missions. --- california. --- canonization. --- catholicism. --- christianity. --- cloister. --- college of san fernando. --- colonial saint. --- conversion. --- historical figures. --- historical memory. --- historical men. --- history. --- indigenous peoples. --- indigenous religion. --- jose de paez. --- junipero serra. --- mexico. --- mission san carlos. --- mission style. --- missionary. --- monk. --- nonfiction. --- pope francis. --- religion. --- religious leaders. --- religious men. --- saint. --- sainthood. --- spain. --- spanish colony. --- spanish saint. --- state history.