ISBN:
9780817314552
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (253 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version The Making of Saints : Contesting Sacred Ground
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Celebrities and popular icons are increasingly ubiquitous figures of a 21st century postmodern world. Some, in death, blur age-old distinctions of sanctification and trespass on sacred ground long held exclusively by religious saints. An emerging continuum is transforming that sacred arena and raising a number of important issues, including the nature of the relationships between the worshipped and the worshipful and the types of institutions that sustain them. The Making of Saints: Contesting Sacred Ground investigates a number of religious leaders, healers, folk saints, and popular icons in
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Figures; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction: Saints and Saints in the Making; 1. Saints and Near-Saints in Transition: The Sacred, the Secular, and the Popular; 2. The Making of Saints and the Vicissitudes of Charisma in Netivot, Israel; 3. Presence of the King: The Vitality of the Image of King Chulalongkorn for Modern Urban Thailand; 4. Evita: A Case of Political Canonization; 5. Desperately Seeking Something: Che Guevara as Secular Saint; 6. Teresa Urrea, Santa de Cabora and Early Chicana? The Politics of Representation, Identity, and Social Memory
Description / Table of Contents:
7. Spirits of a Holy Land: Place and Time in a Modern Mexican Religious Movement8. Saints and Stars: Sainthood for the 21st Century; 9. I Quit My Job for a Funeral: The Mourning and Empowering of a Japanese Rock Star; 10. Popular Culture Canonization: Elvis Presley as Saint and Savior; 11. Saints and Health: A Micro-Macro Interaction Perspective; References Cited; Contributors; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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