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Making and Remaking Saints in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Hardcover)
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Making and Remaking Saints in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Hardcover)
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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. -- .
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