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L'enfant Jésus : histoire et anthropologie d'une dévotion dans l'Occident chrétien.
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ISBN: 9782858168576 2858168571 Year: 2007 Publisher: Toulouse Presses universitaires du Mirail

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Histoire des sanctuaires de Lourdes. [2] : 1858 - 1870, : les origines du pèlerinage.
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ISBN: 9782916218267 2916218262 Year: 2007 Publisher: Lourdes NDL Editions

Cultures of devotion : folk saints of Spanish America.
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ISBN: 9780195171303 0195171306 0199785198 0198038267 1435619579 9786611156442 1281156442 Year: 2007 Publisher: Oxford Oxford university press

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Spanish America has produced numerous "folk saints" — venerated figures regarded as miraculous but not officially recognized by the Catholic Church. Some of these have huge national cults with hundreds — perhaps millions — of devotees. In this book Frank Graziano prvides the first overview in any language of these saints, offering in-depth studies of the beliefs, rituals, and devotions surrounding seven representative figures. These case studies are illuminated by comparisons to some hundred additional saints from contemporary Spanish America. Among the six primary cases are Difunta Correa, at whose shrines devotees offer bottles of water and used auto parts in commemoration of her tragic death in the Argentinian desert. Gaucho Gil is only one of many gaucho saints, whose characteristic narrative involves political injustice and Robin-Hood crimes on behalf of the exploited people. The widespread cult of the Mexican saint Nino Fidencio is based on faith healing performed by devotees who channel his powers. Nino Compadrito is an elegantly dressed skeleton of a child, whose miraculous powers are derived in part from an Andean belief in the power of the skull of one who has suffered a tragic death. Graziano draws upon site visits and extensive interviews with devotees, archival material, media reports, and documentaries to produce vivid portraits of these fascinating popular movements. In the process he sheds new light on the often fraught relationship between orthodox Catholicism and folk beliefs and on an important and little-studied facet of the dynamic culture of contemporary Spanish America.

Instruments of devotion : the practices and objects of religious piety from the Late Middle Ages to the 20th century.
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ISBN: 9788779342002 8779342000 Year: 2007 Volume: no. 1. Publisher: Aarhus Aarhus University Press


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Genovefa von Paris - Person, Verehrung und Rezeption einer Heiligen des Frankenreiches : eine paradigmatische Studie zur Heiligenverehrung im Frühmittelalter.
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ISBN: 9783825899660 3825899667 Year: 2007 Volume: 4 Publisher: Münster LIT

Reading in the wilderness : private devotion and public performance in late medieval England
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ISBN: 9780226071329 0226071324 Year: 2007 Publisher: Chicago ; London University of Chicago Press

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Just as twenty-first-century technologies like blogs and wikis have transformed the once private act of reading into a public enterprise, devotional reading experiences in the Middle Ages were dependent upon an oscillation between the solitary and the communal. In Reading in the Wilderness, Jessica Brantley uses tools from both literary criticism and art history to illuminate Additional MS 37049, an illustrated Carthusian miscellany housed in the British Library. This revealing artifact, Brantley argues, closes the gap between group spectatorship and private study in late medi

Piety and plague : from Byzantium to the Baroque
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ISBN: 9781931112734 1931112738 Year: 2007 Volume: 78 Publisher: Kirksville, Mo. Truman State University Press

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