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Wallfahrt kennt keine Grenzen : Themen zu einer Ausstellung des Bayerischen Nationalmuseums und des Adalbert Stifter Vereins München
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ISBN: 3795403626 9783795403621 Year: 1984 Publisher: München ; Zürich Schnell & Steiner

Crusaders, Cathars, and the Holy places
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ISBN: 0860787850 9780860787853 Year: 1999 Volume: 656 Publisher: Aldershot Brookfield, Vt. Ashgate


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Theater of a thousand wonders : A history of miraculous images and shrines in New Spain
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ISBN: 9781107102675 1107102677 9781316212615 9781107500853 1107500850 1108110428 1108109748 1108105653 1108111785 1316212610 1108111106 1108114504 Year: 2016 Volume: 103 Publisher: New York, NY Cambridge University Press

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The great many shrines of New Spain have become long-lived sites of shared devotion and contestation across social groups. They have provided a lasting sense of enchantment, of divine immanence in the present, and a hunger for epiphanies in daily life. This is a story of consolidation and growth during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, rather than one of rise and decline in the face of early stages of modernization. Based on research in a wide array of manuscript and printed primary sources, and informed by recent scholarship in art history, religious studies, anthropology, and history, this is the first comprehensive study of shrines and miraculous images in any part of early modern Latin America.


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The cult of relics in early Medieval Ireland
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ISBN: 9782503551845 250355184X 2503559204 Year: 2015 Volume: 43 Publisher: Turnhout Brepols

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This book explores how the Christian phenomenon of relic veneration became manifest in early Ireland and evaluates the continuity between Irish practice and that on the continent. 0As the cult of saints became increasingly important to the Christian religion during the latter centuries of the Roman Empire, so too the veneration of relics became a central element of Christian piety. The relics of holy men and women - the very tangibility of which ensured their lasting appeal - could be used to heal the sick, improve the weather, ensure victory in battle, and represent power and authority. Even today, in an era of declining church attendance, famous relics such as the head of St Catherine of Siena or the tongue of St Anthony of Padua continue to draw hundreds of thousands of pilgrims; the need to preserve and venerate objects associated with the important and the famous is a well-established human trait. 0This book is the first to explore the historical roots of the cult of relics in early medieval Ireland, deepening our understanding of how the pagan Irish adapted to the new religion. Examining the cult of relics from the earliest Irish sources up to the ninth century, it provides insights into the role of relics and the culture and people to whom they were so significant. The volume investigates how the Christian phenomenon of relic veneration developed in early Ireland and it evaluates the continuity between Irish practice and that on the continent. By offering a new model of how the cult of relics evolved and by exploring the extent to which it helped forge early Irish Christianity, the arguments presented here have the potential to reshape views of the entire period.


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Die Aachener Heiligtumsfahrt : Bildzeuggnisse und Dokumente. Abteilungsführer und Katalog zur Sonderausstellung 14 Juni bis 30. August 1993
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ISBN: 3929203057 Year: 1993


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Erinnerungsorte des Christentums.
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ISBN: 9783406605000 3406605001 Year: 2010 Publisher: München Beck

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Hubert Wolf und der evangelische Theologe Christoph Markschies haben für diesen Band 42 "Orte" zusammengestellt, die heute als die wichtigsten Fixpunkte christlicher Erinnerung – aber auch der Vergegenwärtigung des Christentums durch Nicht-Christen – gelten. Renommierte Theologen, Historiker und Journalisten beschreiben in glänzenden Essays 7 christliche "Erzorte" wie Rom, Konstantinopel und Wittenberg, 14 weitere geographische Orte wie Assisi, Bethel und Taizé sowie 21 symbolische Orte wie Kreuz, Gesangbuch oder Bibel. Das Ergebnis ist eine lehrreiche und kurzweilige Einführung in die christliche Religion, die verstehen lässt, warum Erinnerungsorte im Zentrum des Christentums stehen und Grundlage seiner kulturellen Bedeutung sind.

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