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Saints and Signs - A Semiotic Reading of Conversion in Early Modern Catholicism (Hardcover)
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Saints and Signs - A Semiotic Reading of Conversion in Early Modern Catholicism (Hardcover)
Series: Religion and Society
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Saints and Signs analyzes a corpus of hagiographies, paintings, and
other materials related to four of the most prominent saints of
early modern Catholicism: Ignatius of Loyola, Philip Neri, Francis
Xavier, and Therese of Avila. Verbal and visual documents -
produced between the end of the Council of Trent (1563) and the
beginning of the pontificate of Urban VIII (1623) - are placed in
their historical context and analyzed through semiotics - the
discipline that studies signification and communication - in order
to answer the following questions: How did these four saints become
signs of the renewal of Catholic spirituality after the
Reformation? How did their verbal and visual representations
promote new Catholic models of religious conversion? How did this
huge effort of spiritual propaganda change the modern idea of
communication? The book is divided into four sections, focusing on
the four saints and on the particular topics related to their
hagiologic identity: early modern theological debates on grace
(Ignatius of Loyola); cultural contaminations between Catholic
internal and external missions (Philip Neri); the Christian
identity in relation to non-Christian territories (Francis Xavier);
the status of women in early modern Catholicism (Therese of Avila).
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