Rag and Bone: A Journey Among the World's Holy Dead

By Examining Relics-the bits and pieces of long-dead saints at the heart of nearly all religious traditions-Peter Manseau delivers a book about life, and about faith and how it is sustained. The result of wide travel and the author's own deep curiosity, filled with true tales of the living and dubious legends of the dead, Rag and Bone provides a thoughtful and fascinating look into, as Manseau describes it, "the primordial strangeness that is at the heart of belief," the place where the abstractions of faith meet the realities of physical objects, of rags and bones.