TY  - GEN
AU  - Van Osselaer,Tine
AU  - Graus,Andrea
AU  - Rossi,Leonardo
AU  - Smeyers,Kristof
TI  - The Devotion and Promotion of Stigmatics in Europe, c. 1800–1950 : Between Saints and Celebrities
SN  - 9789004439351
PY  - 2020///
PB  - Brill
KW  - Christian worship, rites & ceremonies
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Christian mysticism
N1  - Open Access
N2  - In the nineteenth century a new type of mystic emerged in Catholic Europe. While cases of stigmatisation had been reported since the thirteenth century, this era witnessed the development of the ‘stigmatic’: young women who attracted widespread interest thanks to the appearance of physical stigmata. To understand the popularity of these stigmatics we need to regard them as the ‘saints’ and religious ‘celebrities’ of their time. With their ‘miraculous’ bodies, they fit contemporary popular ideas (if not necessarily those of the Church) of what sanctity was. As knowledge about them spread via modern media and their fame became marketable, they developed into religious ‘celebrities’. Readership: All interested in European religious history of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, those who have an interest in cultural history and/or celebrity studies
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/48296/1/9789004439351.pdf
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/68091
ER  -