The Devotion and Promotion of Stigmatics in Europe, c. 1800-1950 : Between Saints and Celebrities

• Tác giả: Andrea Graus, Leonardo Rossi, Kristof Smeyers, Tine Van Osselaer
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-9004439191
• ISBN-13: 978-9004439351
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 248.29 Other religious experiences
• Thông tin xuất bản: LEIDEN ; BOSTON : Brill, 2020
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (470 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 224261
• Chủ đề: 1. Christian worship, rites & ceremonies

Tóm tắt

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'. Readership: All interested in European religious history of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, those who have an interest in cultural history and/or celebrity studies.