Making and remaking saints in nineteenth-century Britain /

Making and remaking saints in nineteenth-century Britain /

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 pa...

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Corporate Authors: Magdalene College (University of Cambridge), Making and remaking saints in nineteenth-century Britain
Other Authors: Atkins, Gareth (Editor)
Format: Electronic Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:English
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016.
Series:Manchester Religious Studies
Subjects:
1800-1899
Saints > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Christian saints > Cult > England > History > 19th century > Congresses.
Great Britain > Religious life and customs > History > 19th century.
Conference papers and proceedings
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : thinking with saints / Gareth Atkins
  • Paul / Michael Ledger-Lomas
  • The Virgin Mary / Carol Engelhardt Herringer
  • Claudia Rufina / Martha Vandrei
  • Patrick / Andrew R. Holmes
  • Thomas Becket / Nicholas Vincent
  • Thomas More / William Sheils
  • Ignatius Loyola / Gareth Atkins
  • English Catholic martyrs / Lucy Underwood
  • Richard Baxter / Simon Burton
  • The Scottish covenanters / James Coleman
  • John and Mary Fletcher / David R. Wilson
  • William Wilberforce and 'the saints' / Roshan Allpress
  • Elizabeth Fry and Sarah Martin / Helen Rogers
  • John Henry Newman's 'Lives of the English Saints' / Elizabeth Macfarlane
  • Thérèse of Lisieux / Alana Harris.

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