The making of saints
Subtitle: contesting sacred ground
By: edited by James F. Hopgood
Contributors: Hopgood, James F
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
Subjects: Saints
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-211) and index
Table of contents: title: Saints and near-saints in transition : the sacred, the secular, and the popular / June Macklin; title: The making of saints and the vicissitudes of charisma in Netivot, Israel / Yoram Bilu; title: Presence of the king : the vitality of the image of King Chulalongkorn for modern urban Thailand / Irene Stengs; title: Evita : a case of political canonization / Roberto Bosca; title: Desperately seeking something : Che Guevara as secular saint / Phyllis Passariello; title: Teresa Urrea, Santa de Cabora and early Chicana? : the politics of representation, identity, and social memory / Gillian E. Newell; title: Spirits of a holy land : place and time in a modern Mexican religious movement / William Breen Murray; title: Saints and stars : sainthood for the 21st century / James F. Hopgood; title: I quit my job for a funeral : the mourning and empowering of a Japanese rock star / Carolyn S. Stevens; title: Popular culture canonization : Elvis Presley as saint and savior / Erika Doss; title: Saints and health : a micro-macro interaction perspective / Walter Randolph Adams