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Gareth (Hrsg.) Atkins

Making and Remaking Saints in Nineteenth-Century Britain

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Making and remaking saints examines the place of 'saints' and sanctity in a self-consciously modern age and argues that holy men and women were pivotal in religious discourse, as subjects of veneration and inter-confessional contention. It provides the first collection of essays exploring sainthood both as an enduring religious institution and as a metaphor that could be transposed into unexpected contexts. British Protestants were equally as fascinated by saints and sainthood as Catholics were. Long after the mechanisms of canonization had disappeared, they continued not only to engage with the saints of the past but continued to make their… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-7190-9686-0
  • EAN: 9780719096860
  • Produktnummer: 20368734
  • Verlag: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
  • Seitenangabe: 296 S.
  • Masse: H16.3 cm x B24.1 cm x D2.8 cm 606 g
  • Abbildungen: 10 black & white illustrations
  • Gewicht: 606
  • Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor


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

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