IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 1629: Moving Saints, II: Transmitting and Re-Negotiating Saint Veneration in Religious Contact Zones
Thursday 7 July 2022, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Linda Eichenberger, Historisches Seminar, Universität Zürich |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Matthias A. Bryson, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge |
| Paper 1629-a | Remembering Late Antique Saints in Islamic Palestine (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Monasticism |
| Paper 1629-b | Substitute Pilgrimage?: Translocation of Saints and Renegotiation of Sacred Space in Crusader Acre (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Ecclesiastical History, Liturgy, Religious Life |
| Paper 1629-c | Christian Storytelling in a Silk Road Oasis as Seen through the 9th- to 13th-Century Turfan Manuscripts (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Liturgy, Literacy and Orality, Religious Life |
| Abstract | This is the second of two sessions on the movement of saints' cults. Both sessions expand the discussion of religious movement beyond pilgrimage to examine how people localised saints' cults in new environments while maintaining connections to their place and time of origin. This session explores the movement of saints within the context of religious contact zones. The first paper analyses the transformation of Christianity and pre-Islamic Greek Orthodox saints in the aftermath of the Islamic conquest of Palestine; the second the role of Crusader Acre as a centre of translocated saints from the West and parts of the Holy Land being again under Muslim control; and the third the process of transmission of Syriac scriptural and hagiographic story into Asia as well as the characteristics of Asian Christian story culture. |