Introduction
by Françoise Meltzer and Jaś Elsner
From Cuba with Saints
by Marc Blanchard
St. Elvis
by Lawrence Jasud
Reviving the Fairy Tree: Tales of European Sanctity
by Françoise Meltzer
Transgressing the Self: Making Charismatic Saints
by Simon Coleman
On Naming Saints
by David Tracy
Patron Saint of the Incongruous: Rabbi Me’<hamza>ir, the Talmud, and Menippean Satire
by Daniel Boyarin
Thinking with Saints: Sanctity and Society in the Early Modern World
by Simon Ditchfield
St. Dymphna and the Lunatics: The Advent of Moral Community Psychiatry
by Bernard Rubin
On the Politics of Sainthood: Resistance and Mimicry in Postcolonial Morocco
by Malika Zeghal
The Enchantment of Judaism: Israeli Anxieties and Puzzles
by Aviad Kleinberg
Persuading the Absent Saint: Image and Performance in Marian Devotion
by Robert Maniura
Miracles of Bodily Transformation, or How St. Francis Received the Stigmata
by Arnold I. Davidson
Re-Presenting a Contemporary Saint: Padre Pio of Pietrelcina
by Michael A. Di Giovine
Saint Teresa of Avila
by Julia Kristeva
translated by Anne Marsella
‘Lycidas’: A Wolf in Saint’s Clothing
by Neil Forsyth
The Invisibility of the Saint
by Jean-Luc Marion
Beyond Compare: Pagan Saint and Christian God in Late Antiquity
by Jaś Elsner
Apophthegmata
by Aviad Kleinberg
Index