9780805086522
Rag and Bone: A Journey Among the World's Holy Dead
Peter Manseau
ISBN 13: 9780805086522
Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
Publication Date: 2009
Binding: Hardcover
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A lighthearted assessment of human relics that have become sacred objects in a variety of faiths is told through a series of pilgrimage tales, including a Californian's visit to a Jerusalem convent in search of a nun's disembodied hand, a French forensics expert's metro journey with a saint's rib, and the ticket-collecting duties of a pair of brothers at a Syrian mosque.
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"The book could have been ghoulish, but Manseau's irreverent approach and enthusiasm keep the tone surprisingly light.
Joshua Hammer, New York Times Book Review, 05/31/2009
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Book Description: Henry Holt. 1 Cloth(s), 2009. hard. Book Condition: New. The impulse to preserve and revere the body parts of the holy deceased has been a part of the human experience since the Buddha lost his baby teeth and John the Baptist lost his head, says Peter Manseau, author of the memoir Vows and co-author of Killing the Buddha. With postmortem accounts of Jesus, Buddha, Muhammad, and a crowd of other holy souls, this surprising and delightful book travels around the world to tell the hidden histories of relics—the bits and pieces of long-dead saints found in most religious traditions. Manseau writes movingly about life, the varieties of faith, and how both life and faith are sustained. "An intriguing tour of the world's most holy hairs, hearts, and hands that refuses to lapse into the sort of confessional cant that deadens much writing on religion today. Rag and Bone is alive with both humorous and heartbreaking observations about the chicanery and mystery of things seen and unseen."—Stephen Prothero 243. Bookseller Inventory # 12565 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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Book Description: Henry Holt Company Inc, United States, 2009. Hardback. Book Condition: New. 210 x 140 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. By examining relics - the bits and pieces of long-dead saints at the heart of nearly all religious traditions - Peter Manseau delivers a book about life, and about faith and how it is sustained. The result of wide travel and the author's own deep curiosity, filled with true tales of the living and dubious legends of the dead, "Rag and Bone" tells of a California seeker who ended up in a Jerusalem convent because of a nun's disembodied hand; a French forensics expert who travels on the metro with the rib of a saint; two young brothers who collect tickets at a Syrian mosque, studying English beside a hair from the Prophet Muhammad's beard; and many other stories, myths, and peculiar histories. With these, and an array of other digits, limbs, and bones, Manseau provides a respectful, witty, informed, inquisitive, thoughtful, and fascinating look into the 'primordial strangeness that is at the heart of belief,' and the place where the abstractions of faith meet the realities of physical objects, of rags and bones. Bookseller Inventory # FLT9780805086522 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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