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Promiscuous Grace - Sonia Velázquez

Promiscuous Grace

Imagining Beauty and Holiness with Saint Mary of Egypt
Buch | Hardcover
224 Seiten
2023
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-82608-0 (ISBN)
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A meditation on holiness and beauty through the study of Saint Mary of Egypt.
 
Saint Mary of Egypt has fascinated theologians, poets, and artists since the seventh century. Her story is richly evocative, encompassing sin and sanctity, concupiscence and asceticism, youth and old age. In Promiscuous Grace, Sonia Velázquez thinks with Saint Mary of Egypt about the relationship between beauty and holiness. Drawing on an archive spanning Spanish medieval poetry, Baroque paintings, seventeenth-century hagiography, and Balzac’s Le chef-d’œuvre  inconnu, Velázquez argues for the importance of the senses on the surface of religious texts on her way to revealing why the legend of Saint Mary of Egypt still matters today.

Sonia Velázquez is assistant professor of religious studies and comparative literature at Indiana University Bloomington. She is coeditor of Pastoral and the Humanities: Arcadia Re-inscribed.

List of Figures
On Translations and Spelling
In a Chapel: An Invitation to Imagine
1 Image Theory according to Saint Mary of Egypt
2 The Seductions of Hagiography
3 The Shoes of the Sinner and the Skin of the Saint
4 Neither Venus nor Venerable Old Men
5 Appearances Are Everything
Epilogue: In the Artist’s Studio
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Class 200: New Studies in Religion
Zusatzinfo 15 halftones
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 399 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Religionsgeschichte
Religion / Theologie Christentum Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10 0-226-82608-2 / 0226826082
ISBN-13 978-0-226-82608-0 / 9780226826080
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