St. Francis of America How a Thirteenth-Century Friar Became America's Most Popular Saint / Patricia Appelbaum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Appelbaum, Patricia Faith.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular culture--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Popular culture.

Popular culture--United States.

United States--Religious life and customs.

United States.

Francis, of Assisi, Saint, 1182-1226.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 p.)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How did a thirteenth-century Italian friar become one of the best-loved saints in America? Around the nation today, St. Francis of Assisi is embraced as the patron saint of animals, beneficently presiding over hundreds of Blessing of the Animals services on October 4, St. Francis's Catholic feast day. Not only Catholics, however, but Protestants and other Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, and nonreligious Americans commonly name him as one of their favorite spiritual figures. Drawing on a dazzling array of art, music, drama, film, hymns, and prayers, Patricia Appelbaum explains what happened to make St. Francis so familiar and meaningful to so many Americans.

Contents:

The nineteenth century : a Protestant Catholic and Catholic Protestants

The early 1900s : everyone's saint

Between the wars : peace, play, and protest

Hymn, prayer, and garden

Postwar prosperity : embrace and resistance

The hippie saint : counterculture and ecology

Blessing the animals

Living voices

Into the future

Epilogue

Appendix : survey : you and St. Francis.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-908445-2-1

1-4696-2375-7

1-4696-2499-0

OCLC:

915321240