From 1943 to his death in 1989, King Louis Narcisse fused Baptist, Pentecostal, and gris-gris traditions into a gumbo of ritual and hagiography. |
He was certainly no cardboard figure and no amount of hagiography has succeeded in making him a saint. |
Attempting to be a hagiography of everybody involved, it becomes instead a satire of the whole folie de grandeur of this absurd project. |
Why is it that English textbooks, including the one I was sent, are top-heavy with hagiographies of our national leaders? |
Too often scholarly collections devoted to Reformed theology are but hagiographies born of an all-too-nostalgic gaze into the past. |
Educational comics, hagiographies and patriotic films retell parts of his life story. |