Comparison as Collaboration: Notes on the Contemporary Craft of Hagiology

A workshop on "comparative hagiology" over the course of three years at the American Academy of Religion has yielded not only a series of articles but an experimental methodology by which scholars hailing from different disciplines and working in different fields might collaborate in thres...

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Published in:Religions
Main Author: Hollander, Aaron T. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: MDPI [2020]
In: Religions
Year: 2020, Volume: 11, Issue: 1
Further subjects:B hagiology
B Sainthood
B disciplinary innovation
B Comparative Method
B theory and method in religious studies
B collaborative scholarship
B Hagiography
B Comparative Religions
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