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Title The making of saints : contesting sacred ground / edited by James F. Hopgood
Published Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2005]
©2005

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Description xxi, 228 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents 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
Analysis Secular
Sacred ground
Anthropological
Notes This book originates from a session held at the 1999 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association entitled The making of saints: secular, folk, sacred
Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [187]-211) and index
Subject Saints.
Saints -- Congresses.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Hopgood, James F.
American Anthropological Association.
LC no. 2004019060
ISBN 0817314555 hardcover alkaline paper
0817351795 paperback alkaline paper