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Record Nr.

UNINA9911132946703321

Autore

Van Osselaer Tine

Titolo

Apparition Fever : Observing the Virgin Mary in Belgium

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , 2025

©2025

ISBN

9780228024965

022802496X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (0 pages)

Collana

McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion Series ; ; v.101

Disciplina

232.91709493

Soggetti

RELIGION / History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Table and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Apparition Fever -- 2 Trust -- 3 Competence -- 4 Authority -- 5 Time -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Apparition Fever examines a series of Marian apparitions that swept over Belgium in the 1930s and '40s, tracing how knowledge of the apparitions was formed among bystanders, medical experts, and church authorities as they decided if the visionaries were worthy of belief.