A Saint of Our Own : How the Quest for a Holy Hero Helped Catholics Become American /
"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 Americ...
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| פורמט: | אלקטרוני ספר אלקטרוני |
| שפה: | אנגלית |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2019]
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| סדרה: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| גישה מקוונת: | Full text available: |
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| סיכום: | "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"-- |
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| תיאור פיזי: | 1 online resource (336 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781469649498 |
| גישה: | Open Access |