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 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, culture of
history, and the reshaping of British identities in an age of faith
and doubt. -- .
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