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Celebrities and popular icons are increasingly ubiqultous figures
of a 21st century postmodern world. Some, in death, blur age-old
distinctions of sanctification and trespass on sacred ground long
held exclusively by religious saints. An emerging continuum is
transforming that sacred arena and raising a number of important
issues, including the nature of the relationships between the
worshipped and the worshipful and the types of institutions that
sustain them. The Making of Saints: Contesting Sacred Ground
investigates a number of religious leaders, healers, folk saints,
and popular icons in seeking to identify their commonalities and
discover how they speak to the same inner yearnings of human beings
for gods and heroes. Issues of social relations, love, emotion,
charisma, power, and sanctification are addressed by the
contributors. Analyses of hagiographies, biographies, media,
control of space, pilgrimage, and acts of devotion provide the
bases for the authors' explorations of these issues. Among the
sanctified included for analysis are the folk saints El Nino
Fidencio and Teresa Urrea; the charismatic rabbis Baba Sall, Baba
Baruch, and Ifargan; King Chalalongkorn of Thailand; two political
figures, Evlta Peron and Che Guevara; and three celebrities: James
Dean, Elvis Presley, and Japanese rock star, HIDE. The contributors
challenge notions of what is sacred and who may be sanctified, and
argue that a broadening of views is needed to accommodate and
appreciate emerging contemporary realities.
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