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The Making of Saints. Contesting Sacred Ground.
James F. . Ed(S): Hopgood
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Description for The Making of Saints. Contesting Sacred Ground.
Paperback. This text investigates a number of religious leaders, healers, folk saints, and popular icons; seeking to identify their commonalities and discover how they speak to the same inner yearnings of human beings for gods and heroes. Editor(s): Hopgood, James F. Num Pages: 264 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: HRLB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 426.
Celebrities and popular icons are increasingly ubiqultous 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 seeking to identify their commonalities and discover how they speak to the ... Read more
Celebrities and popular icons are increasingly ubiqultous 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 seeking to identify their commonalities and discover how they speak to the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Alabama, United States
ISBN
9780817351793
SKU
V9780817351793
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About James F. . Ed(S): Hopgood
James F. Hopgood is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Founding Director of the Museum of Anthropology at Northern Kentucky University. Author of Settlers of Bajavista: Urban Adaptation in a Mexican Squatter Settlement, Hopgood was presented the 2003 Strongest Influence Award by the NKU Alumni Association.
Reviews for The Making of Saints. Contesting Sacred Ground.
This volume asks us again and again what is common among such figures as Israell holy men, an Argentinean dictator's wife, a Mexican folk healer, and Elvis Presley. It challenges us to avoid the dismissive, stereotypical 'something is screwed up with these people,' and to query honestly and patiently what it is that inspires others to congregate around these iuminous ... Read more