Posts Tagged ‘Cult of the Beheaded’
Keep Death in Halloween: A Conversation with Elizabeth Harper
Halloween kicks off the Octave of the Dead, eight days when Christians traditionally prayed for the souls of the departed. For this episode of the podcast I talked to Elizabeth Harper, whose essay, “The Cult of the Beheaded,” in Image 102, explores one culture’s particular history of praying with the remains of the dead.
Read MoreMutilated, Mystic, Heretic: The Inquisition’s Victims are the Folk Saints of Palermo
October 21, 2019
God is also tucked in the back alley with the criminals, the condemned, those whose bodies have been mutilated, and the mystics who encounter God on the wild edges of the church.
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