Who Says You Can’t Be a Saint? Female Saints as Heroes on the Italian Catholic Stage
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9021945 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniela Cavallaro (0000-0002-4015-1204, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 444-459 |
| Publication date | 2017-07-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Humanistic Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1678 • E-ISSN: 1552-650X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0022167817722272 |
| OpenAlex | W2742147607 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 14 |
This essay considers how one modern order of Catholic priests and nuns, the Salesians, presented the lives of female saints as heroic role models through theater to young women in Italy in the post-World War II years. My discussion touches on the Salesian use of theater in education; the most important Salesian woman author, Caterina Pesci; the heroic journey of the saints that Pesci chose as role models; the effect that the theatrical representation of these saints was meant to make on performers and audience, and the historical reasons for the importance of saints as heroic role models in postwar Italy
Art · Art history · Chose · Drama · Literature · Order (exchange · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics · SAINT · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Law · Leadership, Courage, and Heroism Studies · Rousseau and Enlightenment Thought · Visual Culture and Art Theory
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |