The devotion and promotion of stigmatics in Europe, c. 1800-1950 : between saints and celebrities /
"In the nineteenth century a new type of mystic emerged in Catholic Europe. While cases of stigmatisation had been reported since the thirteenth century, this era witnessed the development of the 'stigmatic': young women who attracted widespread interest thanks to the appearance of ph...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2021]
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| Series: | Studies in the history of religions.
volume 167. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "In the nineteenth century a new type of mystic emerged in Catholic Europe. While cases of stigmatisation had been reported since the thirteenth century, this era witnessed the development of the 'stigmatic': young women who attracted widespread interest thanks to the appearance of physical stigmata. To understand the popularity of these stigmatics we need to regard them as the 'saints' and religious 'celebrities' of their time. With their 'miraculous' bodies, they fit contemporary popular ideas (if not necessarily those of the Church) of what sanctity was. As knowledge about them spread via modern media and their fame became marketable, they developed into religious 'celebrities'"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004439351 9004439358 |
| ISSN: | 0169-8834 ; |