Jill Krebs

Our Lady of Emmitsburg, Visionary Culture, and Catholic Identity

Seeing and Believing

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This ethnography uses a lived religion approach to explore devotion in contemporary Marian apparitional movements. It investigates how individuals understand and express Catholic identity in the modern world through beliefs, practices, and relationships with individuals, institutions, and divine figures.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 573g
• ISBN-13: 9781498523554
• ISBN-10: 1498523552
• Artikelnr.: 44027383

Autorenporträt

By Jill Krebs

Inhaltsangabe

"It's probably about the most Catholic town in America": Introduction
1."The holiness was palpable": The Apparitions and Catholics in Context
2."It is holy ground": Miracles and Visionary Culture Identity 3."Our
Lady's got that maternal thing": Relationships with Our Lady in Visionary
Culture 4."It hasn't made me think that I'm not a good Catholic": Visionary
Culture Identity in the Catholic Institutional Framework 5."The truth of
God must erupt as a volcano": New Social Media and Global Catholicism "If
it's true or if it's not true really doesn't matter to me": Conclusions