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Autore: | Cummings Kathleen Sprows |
Titolo: | A Saint of Our Own : How the Quest for a Holy Hero Helped Catholics Become American / / Kathleen Sprows Cummings |
Pubblicazione: | Chapel Hill : , : University of North Carolina Press, , [2019] |
©[2019] | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (333 pages) |
Disciplina: | 235/.240973 |
235.240973 | |
Soggetto topico: | Catholics - Religious identity - United States |
Canonization | |
Note generali: | Previously issued in print: 2019. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | North American saints -- Nation saints -- Citizen saint -- Superpower saints -- Aggiornamento saints -- Papal saints. |
Sommario/riassunto: | "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"-- |
Titolo autorizzato: | A Saint of Our Own |
ISBN: | 979-88-908515-6-7 |
1-4696-4949-7 | |
1-4696-4948-9 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910494573603321 |
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