Making and remaking saints in nineteenth-century Britain /
Making and remaking saints in nineteenth-century Britain /
Making and remaking saints in 19th-century Britain
edited by Gareth Atkins.
- 1 online resource (x, 283 pages) : illustrations
"The seeds of this book were sown at a colloquium in July 2012 at Magdalene College, Cambridge"--Page xi.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : thinking with saints / Paul / The Virgin Mary / Claudia Rufina / Patrick / Thomas Becket / Thomas More / Ignatius Loyola / English Catholic martyrs / Richard Baxter / The Scottish covenanters / John and Mary Fletcher / William Wilberforce and 'the saints' / Elizabeth Fry and Sarah Martin / John Henry Newman's 'Lives of the English Saints' / Thérèse of Lisieux / Gareth Atkins -- Michael Ledger-Lomas -- Carol Engelhardt Herringer -- Martha Vandrei -- Andrew R. Holmes -- Nicholas Vincent -- William Sheils -- Gareth Atkins -- Lucy Underwood -- Simon Burton -- James Coleman -- David R. Wilson -- Roshan Allpress -- Helen Rogers -- Elizabeth Macfarlane -- Alana Harris.
This book examines the place of 'saints' and sanctity in a self-consciously modern age, and argues that Protestants were as fascinated by such figures as Catholics were. Long after the mechanisms of canonisation had disappeared, people continued not only to engage with the saints of the past but continued to make their own saints in all but name. Just as strikingly, it claims that devotional practices and language were not the property of orthodox Christians alone. Making and remaking saints in the nineteenth-century Britain explores for the first time how sainthood remained significant in this period both as an enduring institution and as a metaphor that could be transposed into unexpected contexts. Each of the chapters in this volume focuses on the reception of a particular individual or group, and together they will appeal to not only historians of religion, but those concerned with material culture, the cult of history, and with the reshaping of British identities in an age of faith and doubt.
9780719096860 0719096863 1526100223 9781526100221 9781526115072 1526115077
1800-1899
Saints--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Christian saints--Cult--History--England--19th century--Congresses.
RELIGION--Christian Theology--Angelology & Demonology.
Christian saints--Cult.
Saints.
Heiligenverehrung
Great Britain--Religious life and customs--History--19th century.
England.
Great Britain.
Großbritannien
Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
History.
BR759 / .M28 2016eb
235/.2094109034
"The seeds of this book were sown at a colloquium in July 2012 at Magdalene College, Cambridge"--Page xi.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : thinking with saints / Paul / The Virgin Mary / Claudia Rufina / Patrick / Thomas Becket / Thomas More / Ignatius Loyola / English Catholic martyrs / Richard Baxter / The Scottish covenanters / John and Mary Fletcher / William Wilberforce and 'the saints' / Elizabeth Fry and Sarah Martin / John Henry Newman's 'Lives of the English Saints' / Thérèse of Lisieux / Gareth Atkins -- Michael Ledger-Lomas -- Carol Engelhardt Herringer -- Martha Vandrei -- Andrew R. Holmes -- Nicholas Vincent -- William Sheils -- Gareth Atkins -- Lucy Underwood -- Simon Burton -- James Coleman -- David R. Wilson -- Roshan Allpress -- Helen Rogers -- Elizabeth Macfarlane -- Alana Harris.
This book examines the place of 'saints' and sanctity in a self-consciously modern age, and argues that Protestants were as fascinated by such figures as Catholics were. Long after the mechanisms of canonisation had disappeared, people continued not only to engage with the saints of the past but continued to make their own saints in all but name. Just as strikingly, it claims that devotional practices and language were not the property of orthodox Christians alone. Making and remaking saints in the nineteenth-century Britain explores for the first time how sainthood remained significant in this period both as an enduring institution and as a metaphor that could be transposed into unexpected contexts. Each of the chapters in this volume focuses on the reception of a particular individual or group, and together they will appeal to not only historians of religion, but those concerned with material culture, the cult of history, and with the reshaping of British identities in an age of faith and doubt.
9780719096860 0719096863 1526100223 9781526100221 9781526115072 1526115077
1800-1899
Saints--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Christian saints--Cult--History--England--19th century--Congresses.
RELIGION--Christian Theology--Angelology & Demonology.
Christian saints--Cult.
Saints.
Heiligenverehrung
Great Britain--Religious life and customs--History--19th century.
England.
Great Britain.
Großbritannien
Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
History.
BR759 / .M28 2016eb
235/.2094109034
