Making and remaking saints in nineteenth-century Britain (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Atkins, Gareth

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the place of 'saints' and sanctity in a self-consciously modern age, and argues that Protestants were as fascinated by such figures as Catholics were. Long after the mechanisms of canonisation had disappeared, people continued not only to engage with the saints of the past but continued to make their own saints in all but name. Just as strikingly, it claims that devotional practices and language were not the property of orthodox Christians alone. Making and remaking saints in the nineteenth-century Britain explores for the first time how sainthood remained significant in this period both as an enduring institution and as a metaphor that could be transposed into unexpected contexts. Each of the chapters in this volume focuses on the reception of a particular individual or group, and together they will appeal to not only historians of religion, but those concerned with material culture, the cult of history, and with the reshaping of British identities in an age of faith and doubt.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526100238
• Artikelnr.: 48796341

Autorenporträt

Gareth Atkins is Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Magdalene College, Cambridge. He is also a member of the Bible and Antiquity Project at CRASSH, Cambridge

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Thinking with saints
Gareth Atkins 1. Paul
Michael Ledger
Lomas 2. The Virgin Mary
Carol Engelhardt Herringer 3. Claudia Rufina
Martha Vandrei 4. Patrick
Andrew R. Holmes 5. Thomas Becket
Nicholas Vincent 6. Thomas More
W. J. Sheils 7. Ignatius Loyola
Gareth Atkins 8. English Catholic martyrs
Lucy Underwood 9. Richard Baxter
Simon Burton 10. The Scottish Covenanters
James Coleman 11. John and Mary Fletcher
David R. Wilson 12. William Wilberforce and 'the Saints'
Roshan Allpress 13. Elizabeth Fry and Sarah Martin
Helen Rogers 14. John Henry Newman's Lives of the English Saints
Elizabeth Macfarlane 15. Thérèse of Lisieux
Alana Harris Index