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The devotion and promotion of stigmatics in Europe, c. 1800-1950 : between saints and celebrities / by Tine Van Osselaer ; in collaboration with Andrea Graus, Leonardo Rossi and Kristof Smeyers.
Van Pelt Library BV5091.S7 O87 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Van Osselaer, Tine, author.
- Series:
- Studies in the history of religions ; 0169-8834 v. 167.
- Numen book series, 0169-8834 ; volume 167
- Language:
- Dutch
- English
- French
- German
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Stigmatization--Social aspects--Europe.
- Stigmatization.
- Stigmatics--Europe--Public opinion.
- Stigmatics.
- Women in the Catholic Church--Europe.
- Women in the Catholic Church.
- Fame--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Fame.
- History.
- Public opinion.
- Social aspects.
- Europe--Religious life and customs--History--19th century.
- Europe.
- Europe--Religious life and customs--History--20th century.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 470 pages : illustrations (some color), color graph, map ; 24 cm.
- Manufacture:
- Netherlands : Printed by Printforce.
- Other Title:
- Devotion and promotion of stigmatics in Europe, circa 1800-1950
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]
- Language Note:
- Includes quotations in French, German, Dutch, or Latin.
- Biography/History:
- Tine Van Osselaer, Ph. D. 2009. Research professor, University of Antwerp.
- Summary:
- "In the nineteenth century a new type of mystic emerged in Catholic Europe. While cases of stigmatisation had been reported since the thirteenth century, this era witnessed the development of the 'stigmatic': young women who attracted widespread interest thanks to the appearance of physical stigmata. To understand the popularity of these stigmatics we need to regard them as the 'saints' and religious 'celebrities' of their time. With their 'miraculous' bodies, they fit contemporary popular ideas (if not necessarily those of the Church) of what sanctity was. As knowledge about them spread via modern media and their fame became marketable, they developed into religious 'celebrities'"-- Provided by publisher on back cover.
- Contents:
- Stigmatics
- Saints and celebrities
- On stigmata, suffering and sanctity
- Visiting stigmatics and their promotion from the ground up
- Selling sensation, creating sanctity
- Stigmatics, politics and the law
- Stigmatized blood in the Vatican courts
- Conclusion
- Biographical dictionary of stigmatics.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- "This is an open access title distributed under the terms of the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license, which permits any non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided no alterations are made and the original author(s) and source are credited. Further information and the complete license text can be found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ "--Page iv.
- ISBN:
- 9789004439191
- 9004439196
- OCLC:
- 1195818047
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