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UNINA9910494573603321 |
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Autore |
Cummings Kathleen Sprows |
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Titolo |
A Saint of Our Own : How the Quest for a Holy Hero Helped Catholics Become American / / Kathleen Sprows Cummings |
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Chapel Hill : , : University of North Carolina Press, , [2019] |
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©[2019] |
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ISBN |
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979-88-908515-6-7 |
1-4696-4949-7 |
1-4696-4948-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (333 pages) |
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Collana |
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North Carolina scholarship online |
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Soggetti |
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Catholics - Religious identity - United States |
Canonization |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Previously issued in print: 2019. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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North American saints -- Nation saints -- Citizen saint -- Superpower saints -- Aggiornamento saints -- Papal saints. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"What drove American Catholics in their long and arduous quest, full of twists and turns across more than a century, to win an American-born saint? The absence of American names in the canon of the saints left many feeling spiritually unmoored and disrespected - to be able to look at the same American scenes upon which a saint had gazed would be a joy and privilege, certainly. But believers also had another reason for cultivating homegrown holiness, contends Kathleen Sprows Cummings in this ... chronicle of saint-making in America, where canonization was about holiness but never only about holiness"-- |
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