Promiscuous Grace

Imagining Beauty and Holiness with Saint Mary of Egypt

Sonia Velázquez (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2023
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-82610-3 (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	18.04.2023
Reihe/Serie	Class 200: New Studies in Religion
Zusatzinfo	15 halftones
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	313 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	0-226-82610-4 / 0226826104
ISBN-13	978-0-226-82610-3 / 9780226826103
Zustand	Neuware