The making of saints [electronic resource] : contesting sacred ground / edited by James F. Hopgood.
Publication details: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2005.Description: xxi, 228 p. : illISBN:- 0817314555 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0817351795 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 306.4 22
- BL488 .M35 2005eb
eBooks
Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-211) and index.
Saints and near-saints in transition : the sacred, the secular, and the popular / June Macklin -- The making of saints and the vicissitudes of charisma in Netivot, Israel / Yoram Bilu -- Presence of the king : the vitality of the image of King Chulalongkorn for modern urban Thailand / Irene Stengs -- Evita : a case of political canonization / Roberto Bosca -- Desperately seeking something : Che Guevara as secular saint / Phyllis Passariello -- Teresa Urrea, Santa de Cabora, and early Chicana? : the politics of representation, identity, and social memory / Gillian E. Newell -- Spirits of a holy land : place and time in a modern Mexican religious movement / William Breen Murray -- Saints and stars : sainthood for the 21st century / James F. Hopgood -- I quit my job for a funeral : the mourning and empowering of a Japanese rock star / Carolyn S. Stevens -- Popular culture canonization : Elvis Presley as saint and savior / Erika Doss -- Saints and health : a micro-macro interaction perspective / Walter Randolph Adams.
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