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Modelizing epistemologies: organizing Catholic sanctity from calendar-based martyrologies to today's mobile apps
2021
Semiotica: Journal of the International Association for Semiotic Studies
The Catholic concept of "sanctity" can be thought of as a "cultural unit" (Eco) composed of a wide variety of "grounds" (Peirce) or distinctive features. The figures of individual saints, i.e., tokens of sanctity, are characterized by a particular set of grounds, organized and represented in texts of different genres. This paper presents a semiotic study of texts seeking to offer an encompassing view of "sanctity" by listing all the saints and supplementing their names with a short description
doi:10.1515/sem-2019-0089
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