A Saint of Our Own : How the Quest for a Holy Hero Helped Catholics Become American / / Kathleen Sprows Cummings

• Autore: Cummings Kathleen Sprows
• 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
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: North Carolina scholarship online.