"This study demonstrates the previously unrecognised significance of discourses of saintliness for constructions of gender and national identity in late-ninetee

In this original study of the making of saintly reputations, Aviad M. Kleinberg shows how sainthood, though frequently seen as a personal trait, is actually the

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