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12%OFFSuzanne K. Kaufman - Consuming Visions: Mass Culture and the Lourdes Shrine - 9780801475320 - V9780801475320
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Consuming Visions: Mass Culture and the Lourdes Shrine

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Description for Consuming Visions: Mass Culture and the Lourdes Shrine Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages, 42. BIC Classification: HRAX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 227 x 17. Weight in Grams: 388.
Plastic Madonnas, packaged holy tours, and biblical theme parks can arouse discomfort, laughter, and even revulsion in religious believers and nonbelievers alike. Scholars, too, often see the intermingling of religion and commerce as a corruption of true spirituality. Suzanne K. Kaufman challenges these assumptions in her examination of the Lourdes pilgrimage in late nineteenth-century France.Consuming Visions offers new ways to interpret material forms of worship, female piety, and modern commercial culture. Kaufman argues that the melding of traditional pilgrimage activities with a newly developing mass culture produced fresh expressions of popular faith. For the devout women of humble origins who ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Weight
388g
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801475320
SKU
V9780801475320
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About Suzanne K. Kaufman
Suzanne K. Kaufman is Associate Professor of History at Loyola University Chicago.

Reviews for Consuming Visions: Mass Culture and the Lourdes Shrine
This well-researched and engagingly written book argues that in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the Lourdes shrine modernized religious devotion through mass transportation, advertising, sensationalized medical debates, and the mass press, but not at the expense of true faith. Suzanne K. Kaufman's original insight is that modernization actually created exciting and innovative devotional practices. Consuming Visions thus offers ... Read more

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