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The making of saints : contesting sacred ground / edited by James F. Hopgood.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Saints.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (253 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Celebrities and popular icons are increasingly ubiquitous figures of a 21st century postmodern world. Some, in death, blur age-old distinctions of sanctification and trespass on sacred ground long held exclusively by religious saints. An emerging continuum is transforming that sacred arena and raising a number of important issues, including the nature of the relationships between the worshipped and the worshipful and the types of institutions that sustain them. The Making of Saints: Contesting Sacred Ground investigates a number of religious leaders, healers, folk saints
- Contents:
- Saints and near-saints in transition : the sacred, the secular, and the popular / June Macklin
- The making of saints and the vicissitudes of charisma in Netivot, Israel / Yoram Bilu
- Presence of the king : the vitality of the image of King Chulalongkorn for modern urban Thailand / Irene Stengs
- Evita : a case of political canonization / Roberto Bosca
- Desperately seeking something : Che Guevara as secular saint / Phyllis Passariello
- Teresa Urrea, Santa de Cabora, and early Chicana? : the politics of representation, identity, and social memory / Gillian E. Newell
- Spirits of a holy land : place and time in a modern Mexican religious movement / William Breen Murray
- Saints and stars : sainthood for the 21st century / James F. Hopgood
- I quit my job for a funeral : the mourning and empowering of a Japanese rock star / Carolyn S. Stevens
- Popular culture canonization : Elvis Presley as saint and savior / Erika Doss
- Saints and health : a micro-macro interaction perspective / Walter Randolph Adams.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-211) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-8088-4
- OCLC:
- 183291890
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