Cargando…

The making of saints : contesting sacred ground /

This text investigates a number of religious leaders, healers, folk saints, and popular icons; seeking to identify their commonalities and discover how they speak to the same inner yearnings of human beings for gods and heroes.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hopgood, James F.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2005.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.