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Supernatural Bodies : Stigmata in Modern Britain and Ireland / Kristof Smeyers.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smeyers, Kristof, 1988- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christianity.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (265 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2024]
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- This book examines the role of supernatural bodies in public debates about religion, science, culture and modernity in modern Britain and Ireland. In turn, the prism of supernatural bodies reveals how those debates were interlinked, and how the forms of knowledge that informed them were produced.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- A Roman Catholic horror: stigmatic anxieties in the early nineteenth century
- Supernatural popery
- A corpus of bodies
- Bodily credentials
- Unhealthy religion
- Under the skin
- In defence of the supernatural
- Public knowledge and judgement
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-5261-7722-6
- 1-5261-7724-2
- OCLC:
- 1456981840
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