how a thirteenth-century friar became America's most popular saint Appelbaum, Patricia Faith. creator text bibliography Electronic books. ncu Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press 2015 monographic eng 1 online resource Around the nation today, St. Francis of Assisi is embraced as the patron saint of animals, beneficently presiding over hundreds of Blessing of the Animals services on October 4, St. Francis's Catholic feast day. Not only Catholics, however, but Protestants and other Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, and nonreligious Americans commonly name him as one of their favorite spiritual figures. Appelbaum traces popular depictions and interpretations of St. Francis from the time when non-Catholic Americans "discovered" him in the nineteenth century to the present. The nineteenth century : a Protestant Catholic and Catholic Protestants -- The early 1900s : everyone's saint -- Between the wars : peace, play, and protest -- Hymn, prayer, and garden -- Postwar prosperity : embrace and resistance -- The hippie saint : counterculture and ecology -- Blessing the animals -- Living voices -- Into the future -- Epilogue -- Appendix : survey : you and St. Francis. Patricia Appelbaum. Includes bibliographical references and index. n-us--- of Assisi, Saint Francis 1182-1226 Popular culture Religious aspects Christianity Popular culture United States United States Religious life and customs RELIGION Institutions & Organizations SOCIAL SCIENCE Sociology of Religion BX4700.F6 A766 2015 271/.302 Appelbaum, Patricia Faith. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2015 (DLC) 2014048331 9781469624990 1469624990 9781469623757 1469623757 22573/ctt14r8162 JSTOR http://public.eblib.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=3571151 http://site.ebrary.com/id/11083291 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=978170 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469623757_Appelbaum http://www.myilibrary.com?id=929398 https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781469624990/ http://public.eblib.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=3571151 http://site.ebrary.com/id/11083291 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=978170 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469623757_Appelbaum http://www.myilibrary.com?id=929398 https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781469624990/ P@U 150107 20200709060340.0 ocn915321240 eng