Author: Donna Freitas
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Keywords: sainthood, possibilities
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2008-08-05
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0374360871
ISBN-13: 9780374360870

Antonia Lucia Labella has two secrets: at fifteen, she’s still waiting for her first kiss, and she wants to be a saint. An official one. Seem strange? Well, to Antonia, saints are royalty, and she wants her chance at being a princess. All her life she’s kept company with these kings and queens of small favors, knowing exactly whom to pray to on every occasion. Unfortunately, the two events Antonia’s prayed for seem equally unlikely to happen. It’s not for lack of trying. For how long has she been hoping to gain the attention of the love of her life – the tall, dark, and so good-lookin

Author: Donna Freitas
Publisher: Square Fish
Keywords: sainthood, possibilities
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2010-08-17
List price: $8.99
ISBN-10: 0312629141
ISBN-13: 9780312629144

My name saint is famous for her purity. Her untouched-by-boys-ness.I am also famous for this, by concidence.Antonia Lucia Labella has two secrets: At fifteen, she’s still waiting for her first kiss, and she wants to be a saint. An official one. Unfortunately, the two events seem equally unlikely to happen, but it’s not for lack of trying. Every month for the last eight years, Antonia has proposed a new patron saint to the Vatican, bravely offering herself for the post. (So what if she’s not dead?) And she’s been praying for the attention of the tall, dark, and so good-looking Andy Rote

Authors:Richard Kieckhefer, George D. Bond,
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: religions, world, manifestations, sainthood
Number of Pages: 275
Published: 1990-08-09
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0520071891
ISBN-13: 9780520071896

Every major religion exalts certain individuals who occupy a dual role. On the one hand they serve as exemplars of virtue to be imitated, and on the other hand they stand removed from other mortals, privileged and unique. Christianity knows them as saints, and in the study of religion the term has been taken over and applied to similar figures in other traditions. The essays in this volume analyze the role of the saint in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Confucianism, providing both a comparative and an interpretive view of sainthood. The notio

Author: Jason Boyett
Publisher: Jossey-Ba
Keywords: super, virtuous, life, manual, field, guide, sainthood, pocket
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2009-08-03
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0470373105
ISBN-13: 9780470373101

"Boyett’s witty, weird, and sometimes even wise Pocket Guides are proof that the best things do come in small packages." —Daniel Radosh, author, Rapture Ready! We name our cities, hospitals, and churches after them. We flock to shrines bearing their remains. We ask for their help when we lose our keys. Who are these saints, what made them so holy, and what in the world are those birds doing on St. Francis’s shoulder? Jason Boyett’s Pocket Guide to Sainthood takes an intriguing and unflinching look at the fascinating—and fascinatingly weird—lives of the saints.

Author: Corinne G. Dempsey
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: worldview, south, india, culture, collisions, christian, sainthood, kerala
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2001-01-25
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 0195130286
ISBN-13: 9780195130287

In this fieldwork-based study, Corinne Dempsey examines Christianity in Kerala, which is home to India’s ancient and thriving Christian community. Dempsey views their saint traditions as reflecting devotees’ "hybrid" (Western and Eastern) identities in colonial and postcolonial times. She uses Kerala Christian devotional practices as points of comparison with European Catholicism and the indigenous Hinduism of the region.

Authors:Gerald T. Elmore, Gerald T. Elmore,
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Keywords: islamic, gryphon, philosophy, theology, science, fabulous, arabi, sainthood, fullness, time, ibn, book
Number of Pages: 562
Published: 1999-06-01
List price: $378.00
ISBN-10: 9004109919
ISBN-13: 9789004109919

Presents the seminal treatise of the Spanish Muslim mystic, Ibn al-’Arabi, on Islamic sainthood, "The Book of the Fabulous Gryphon". This work deals with its biographical, historical and bibliographical backgound, and examines its concepts, themes and structure. An annotated translation follows.