Pocket Guide to Sainthood: The Field Manual for the Super-Virtuous Life - ISBN:0470373105

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Pocket Guide to Sainthood: The Field Manual for the Super-Virtuous Life
By Jason Boyett
* Publisher: Jossey-Bass
* Number Of Pages: 240
* Publication Date: 2009-08-03
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0470373105
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780470373101
Product Description:
"Boyett's witty, weird, and sometimes even wise Pocket Guides are proof that the best things do come in small packages." —Daniel Radosh, author, Rapture Ready!
We name our cities, hospitals, and churches after them. We flock to shrines bearing their remains. We ask for their help when we lose our keys. Who are these saints, what made them so holy, and what in the world are those birds doing on St. Francis's shoulder?
Jason Boyett's Pocket Guide to Sainthood takes an intriguing and unflinching look at the fascinating—and fascinatingly weird—lives of the saints. Whether you are a Catholic desperately needing a patron, or a Protestant trying to identify your cabbie's bobblehead, this may be as close as you ever come to true holiness. Make the most of it by learning
* How St. Denis delivered his best sermon while holding his own decapitated head
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Why both hair shirts and nakedness are mainstays of saintly fashion
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Which saints are the patrons of bowel disorders, serial killers, and other useful categories
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What is involved in the canonization process, should you get so lucky?or martyred
With Pocket Guide to Sainthood, virtue just got a whole lot more entertaining.
Summary: Education was never this much fun
Rating: 5
As an atheist I naturally look very skeptically at religiously themed books. But after visiting the author's blog and having become familiar with his style, I had to read this book. I wasn't disappointed.
A quick and easy read, it's a delightful tour of the amazingly bizarre and often little known personages who have achieved sainthood. Filled with humor, disarmingly snarky, Mr. Boyett has taken what could have been a dry semi-historical apologetic and made it a fun read. I found myself chuckling and scratching my head in wonder at the amazing (and often far fetched) attributes with which the ancients credited their holy men.
While a believer himself, Mr. Boyett doesn't take himself or his subject too seriously, which is a breath of fresh air in this genre. The information packed into this small book alone makes it worth the price, but the style makes it priceless.
I'm looking forward to reading his other "pocket guides" in the series.

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