Victorians and the Virgin Mary

Victorians and the Virgin Mary
Author: Carol Engelhardt-Herringer
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2013-07-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 1847797156
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This interdisciplinary study of competing representations of the Virgin Mary examines how anxieties about religious and gender identities intersected to create public controversies that, whilst ostensibly about theology and liturgy, were also attempts to define the role and nature of women. Drawing on a variety of sources, this book seeks to revise our understanding of the Victorian religious landscape, both retrieving Catholics from the cultural margins to which they are usually relegated, and calling for a reassessment of the Protestant attitude to the feminine ideal. This book will be useful to advanced students and scholars in a variety of disciplines including history, religious studies, Victorian studies, women’s history and gender studies.

The Devotion and Promotion of Stigmatics in Europe, C. 1800-1950

The Devotion and Promotion of Stigmatics in Europe, C. 1800-1950
Author: Tine Van Osselaer
Publisher: Numen Book
Total Pages: 470
Release: 2021
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789004439191
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"In the nineteenth century a new type of mystic emerged in Catholic Europe. While cases of stigmatisation had been reported since the thirteenth century, this era witnessed the development of the 'stigmatic': young women who attracted widespread interest thanks to the appearance of physical stigmata. To understand the popularity of these stigmatics we need to regard them as the 'saints' and religious 'celebrities' of their time. With their 'miraculous' bodies, they fit contemporary popular ideas (if not necessarily those of the Church) of what sanctity was. As knowledge about them spread via modern media and their fame became marketable, they developed into religious 'celebrities'"--

Those Who Saw Her

Those Who Saw Her
Author: Catherine M. Odell
Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2023-10-19
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1681926733
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For almost the entire history of the Church, the Blessed Virgin Mary has been returning to the world she left nearly two millennia ago. In this revised and expanded fourth edition, Those Who Saw Her shares the latest developments, updates, and Church teachings on the apparitions of Mary. This book details the most famous approved apparitions at Guadalupe, Rue de Bac, La Salette, Lourdes, Pontmain, Knock, and Fatima, as well as the fascinating but lesser-known appearances at Akita, Japan; Kibeho, Rwanda; San Nicolas, Argentina; Betania, Venezuela; and Champion, Wisconsin. Let Mary's prophetic messages bring comfort and hope to your life in this thorough and compelling presentation of the extraordinary visits of the Blessed Mother to her children around the world.