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Saints and signs : a semiotic reading of conversion in early modern Catholicism /
Catholic saints are also signs. Through the saints, the Catholic Church communicates certain models of spirituality. After the Reformation, saints became the media through which the Catholic Church represented and promoted a renewal of the Catholic faith in Europe and in its colonies. Saints and Sig...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
De Gruyter,
©2010.
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| Colección: | Religion and society (Hague, Netherlands) ;
48. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Catholic saints are also signs. Through the saints, the Catholic Church communicates certain models of spirituality. After the Reformation, saints became the media through which the Catholic Church represented and promoted a renewal of the Catholic faith in Europe and in its colonies. Saints and Signs analyzes hagiographies, paintings, and other texts representing the sanctity of Ignatius of Loyola, Philip Neri, Francis Xavier, and Therese of Avila, in order to answer the following question: How did these words and images influence the Catholic spirituality at the beginning of modernity? |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 652 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783110229523 3110229528 311022951X 9783110229516 |
| ISSN: | 1437-5370 ; |