Andreas Bandak is an anthropologist and PhD Fellow at University of Copenhagen. His research focuses on the Christian minorities in Syria. He has co-edited a special issue of Ethnos entitled Foregrounds and Backgrounds: Ventures in the Anthropology of Christianity (2012).Mikkel Bille holds a PhD in anthropology from UCL (2009) and is Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He has co-edited An Anthropology of Absence (2010), and co-authored Materialitet. En indføring i kultur, identitet og teknologi (2012) in Danish.

• AcknowledgmentsList of FiguresIntroduction: Sainthood in fragile states - Andreas Bandak and Mikkel BillePart I - Sustained SainthoodContesting Fragile Saintly Traditions: Miraculous healing among Twelver Shi‘is in contemporary Syria - Edith SzantoSaints, Media and Minority Cultures: On Coptic cults of Egyptian revolution from Alexandria to Maspero - Angie Heo Part II: Contested RepresentationsEnigmas of a Pakistani Warrior Saint: Interrogating media conspiracies in an Age of Terror - Pnina WerbnerThe Samer, the Saint and the Shaman: Ordering Bedouin heritage in Jordan - Mikkel BillePart III: Indeterminate SainthoodOur Lady of Soufanieh: On knowledge, ignorance and indifference among the Christians of Damascus - Andreas BandakEcstatic Sainthood and austere Sunni Islam: A majzūb in northern Pakistan - Juergen FrembgenPart IV: Secular SainthoodImbued with Agency: Contesting notions of the extraordinaryness of Türkan Saylan - Daniella KuzmanovicThe Secular Saint: Iconography and ideology in the cult of Bashir Jumayil - Sune Haugbolle

Andreas Bandak is an anthropologist and PhD Fellow at University of Copenhagen. His research focuses on the Christian minorities in Syria. He has co-edited a special issue of Ethnos entitled Foregrounds and Backgrounds: Ventures in the Anthropology of Christianity (2012).Mikkel Bille holds a PhD in anthropology from UCL (2009) and is Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He has co-edited An Anthropology of Absence (2010), and co-authored Materialitet. En indføring i kultur, identitet og teknologi (2012) in Danish.

• AcknowledgmentsList of FiguresIntroduction: Sainthood in fragile states - Andreas Bandak and Mikkel BillePart I - Sustained SainthoodContesting Fragile Saintly Traditions: Miraculous healing among Twelver Shi‘is in contemporary Syria - Edith SzantoSaints, Media and Minority Cultures: On Coptic cults of Egyptian revolution from Alexandria to Maspero - Angie Heo Part II: Contested RepresentationsEnigmas of a Pakistani Warrior Saint: Interrogating media conspiracies in an Age of Terror - Pnina WerbnerThe Samer, the Saint and the Shaman: Ordering Bedouin heritage in Jordan - Mikkel BillePart III: Indeterminate SainthoodOur Lady of Soufanieh: On knowledge, ignorance and indifference among the Christians of Damascus - Andreas BandakEcstatic Sainthood and austere Sunni Islam: A majzūb in northern Pakistan - Juergen FrembgenPart IV: Secular SainthoodImbued with Agency: Contesting notions of the extraordinaryness of Türkan Saylan - Daniella KuzmanovicThe Secular Saint: Iconography and ideology in the cult of Bashir Jumayil - Sune Haugbolle

Andreas Bandak is an anthropologist and PhD Fellow at University of Copenhagen. His research focuses on the Christian minorities in Syria. He has co-edited a special issue of Ethnos entitled Foregrounds and Backgrounds: Ventures in the Anthropology of Christianity (2012).Mikkel Bille holds a PhD in anthropology from UCL (2009) and is Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He has co-edited An Anthropology of Absence (2010), and co-authored Materialitet. En indføring i kultur, identitet og teknologi (2012) in Danish.

• AcknowledgmentsList of FiguresIntroduction: Sainthood in fragile states - Andreas Bandak and Mikkel BillePart I - Sustained SainthoodContesting Fragile Saintly Traditions: Miraculous healing among Twelver Shi‘is in contemporary Syria - Edith SzantoSaints, Media and Minority Cultures: On Coptic cults of Egyptian revolution from Alexandria to Maspero - Angie Heo Part II: Contested RepresentationsEnigmas of a Pakistani Warrior Saint: Interrogating media conspiracies in an Age of Terror - Pnina WerbnerThe Samer, the Saint and the Shaman: Ordering Bedouin heritage in Jordan - Mikkel BillePart III: Indeterminate SainthoodOur Lady of Soufanieh: On knowledge, ignorance and indifference among the Christians of Damascus - Andreas BandakEcstatic Sainthood and austere Sunni Islam: A majzūb in northern Pakistan - Juergen FrembgenPart IV: Secular SainthoodImbued with Agency: Contesting notions of the extraordinaryness of Türkan Saylan - Daniella KuzmanovicThe Secular Saint: Iconography and ideology in the cult of Bashir Jumayil - Sune Haugbolle