Saints and virtues /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berkley :
University of California Press,
[1987]
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| Series: | Comparative studies in religion and society ;
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Table of Contents:
- The saint as exemplar in late antiquity / Peter Brown
- A theater of virtue : the exemplary world of St. Francis of Assisi / Hester Goodenough Gelber
- Prophet and saint : the two exemplars of Islam / William M. Brinner
- Morality beyond morality in the lives of three Hindu saints / John Stratton Hawley
- the Confucian sage / Tu Wei-ming
- Sainthood on the periphery : the case of Judaism / Robert L. Cohn
- The Buddhist arahant / Stanley J. Tambiah
- Saints and virtue in African Islam / Lamin Sanneh
- Alourdes : a case study of moral leadership in Hatian Vodou / Karen McCarthy Brown
- Sathya Sai Baba's saintly play / Lawrence A. Babb
- Saint Gandhi / Mark Juergensmeyer
- Conclusion : after sainthood? / John A. Coleman.