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Discorsi sulle stimmate dal Medioevo all'età contemporanea = : Discours sur les stigmates du Moyen Âge à l'époque contemporaine
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ISBN: 9788863725551 8863725551 Year: 2013 Publisher: Roma Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura


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Breaking the silence : South African representations of HIV/AIDS
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ISBN: 1782041923 1847010709 1299852327 Year: 2013 Publisher: Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer,

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South Africa is one of the countries in the world most affected by HIV/AIDS, and yet, until recently, the epidemic was barely visible in South African literature. Much can be gained from approaching the South African epidemic through creative texts such as novels, photographs, films, cartoons and murals because they produce and circulate meanings of HIV/AIDS and its various facets such as its 'origin', 'transmission routes' and 'physical manifestations'. Other aspects explored are the denial of HIV/AIDS, its stigmatisation, discriminatory practices, modes of disclosure, access to anti-retroviral medication, as well as the role of alternative treatment. Creative texts, which are open to different and possibly contradictory readings, can serve as a starting point to increase the cultural visibility of the virus and to challenge dominant ideas about the epidemic. The cultural constructions of HIV/AIDS should be carefully examined because the meanings are pervasive and have very 'real' consequences: they play a powerful role both in determining which issues receive attention and in shaping public understanding of the virus. Ellen Grünkemeier is a lecturer and researcher in the English Department at Leibniz University of Hanover, Germany. Her publications include two co-edited volumes on postcolonial literatures and cultures, 'Listening to Africa. Anglophone African Literatures and Cultures' (2012), and 'Postcolonial Studies across the Disciplines' (ASNEL Papers 19, forthcoming).


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Sister Thorn and Catholic mysticism in modern America
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ISBN: 1469607611 1469612569 9781469612560 9781469607603 1469607603 9781469626581 9781469607610 Year: 2013 Publisher: Chapel Hill, NC

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"One day in 1917, while cooking dinner at home in Manhattan, Margaret Reilly (1884-1937) felt a sharp pain over her heart and claimed to see a crucifix emerging in blood on her skin. Four years later, Reilly entered the convent of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in Peekskill, New York, where, known as Sister Mary of the Crown of Thorns, she spent most of her life gravely ill and possibly exhibiting Christ's wounds. In this portrait of Sister Thorn, Paula M. Kane scrutinizes the responses to this American stigmatic's experiences and illustrates the surprising presence of mystical phenomena in twentieth-century American Catholicism"-- "One day in 1917, while cooking dinner at home in Manhattan, Margaret Reilly (1884-1937) felt a sharp pain over her heart and claimed to see a crucifix emerging in blood on her skin. Four years later, Reilly entered the convent of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in Peekskill, New York, where, known as Sister Mary of the Crown of Thorns, she spent most of her life gravely ill and possibly exhibiting Christ's wounds. In this portrait of Sister Thorn, Paula M. Kane scrutinizes the responses to this American stigmatic's experiences and illustrates the surprising presence of mystical phenomena in twentieth-century American Catholicism. Drawing on accounts by clerical authorities, ordinary Catholics, doctors, and journalists--as well as on medicine, anthropology, and gender studies--Kane explores American Catholic mysticism, setting it in the context of life after World War I and showing the war's impact on American Christianity. Sister Thorn's life, she reveals, marks the beginning of a transition among Catholics from a devotional, Old World piety to a newly confident role in American society"--

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HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA). --- RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic. --- Stigmatization --- Nuns --- Stigmata --- Miracles --- History --- Reilly, Margaret, --- Catholic Church --- Sisters of the Good Shepherd --- Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd (2014- ) --- Congregação de Nossa Senhora do Bom Pastor --- Congregação de Nossa Senhora da Caridade do Bom Pastor --- Soeurs de Notre-Dame de la charité du Bon Pasteur --- Soeurs de Notre-Dame de charité du Bon Pasteur --- R.G.S. --- RGS --- Suore di Nostra Signora della carità del Buon Pastore --- Congregation of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd --- Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd --- Religious of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd --- Hermanas de la Caridad del Buen Pastor --- Hermanas del Buen Pastor --- Congregación de Nuestra Señora de la Caridad del Buen Pastor --- Komunitas Gembala Baik --- Kongregasi Bunda Pengasih Gembala Baik --- Kongregasi Gembala Baik --- Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd --- Kongregasi Suster Gembala Baik --- Soeurs du Bon-Pasteur --- Religious studies --- Christian spirituality --- Reilly, Margaret --- anno 1900-1999 --- United States --- Church of Rome --- Roman Catholic Church --- Katholische Kirche --- Katolyt︠s︡ʹka t︠s︡erkva --- Römisch-Katholische Kirche --- Römische Kirche --- Ecclesia Catholica --- Eglise catholique --- Eglise catholique-romaine --- Katolicheskai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ --- Chiesa cattolica --- Iglesia Católica --- Kościół Katolicki --- Katolicki Kościół --- Kościół Rzymskokatolicki --- Nihon Katorikku Kyōkai --- Katholikē Ekklēsia --- Gereja Katolik --- Kenesiyah ha-Ḳatolit --- Kanisa Katoliki --- כנסיה הקתולית --- כנסייה הקתולית --- 가톨릭교 --- 천주교 --- United States of America

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