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Edited by John Stratton Hawley
Saints and Virtues
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$25.00, £14.95 paperback
978-0-520-06163-7
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352 pages,
September 1987, Available worldwide
Categories: Religion; Sociology; Hinduism

This book explores a larger family of saints—those celebrated not just by Christianity but by other religious traditions of the world: Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, Buddhist, Confucian, African, and Caribbean. The essays show how saints serve as moral exemplars in the communities that venerate them.