May 06, 2011

Books

In the Flesh

Mathew N. Schmalz

Heaven’s BrideThe Unprintable Life of Ida C. Craddock, American Mystic, Scholar, Sexologist, Martyr, and MadwomanLeigh Eric SchmidtBasic Books, $28.95, 335 pp. Padre PioMiracles and Politics in a Secular AgeSergio LuzzattoTranslated by Frederika RandallMetropolitan Books, $35, 384 pp.   Though sex and stigmata form two poles of human experience—one anchored in the ca (...)


 

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