The making of saints : contesting sacred ground /
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| Language: | English |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
©2005.
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Table of Contents:
- Saints and near-saints in transition : the sacred, the secular, and the popular / June Macklin
- The making of saints and the vicissitudes of charisma in Netivot, Israel / Yoram Bilu
- Presence of the king : the vitality of the image of King Chulalongkorn for modern urban Thailand / Irene Stengs
- Evita : a case of political canonization / Roberto Bosca
- Desperately seeking something : Che Guevara as secular saint / Phyllis Passariello
- Teresa Urrea, Santa de Cabora, and early Chicana? : the politics of representation, identity, and social memory / Gillian E. Newell
- Spirits of a holy land : place and time in a modern Mexican religious movement / William Breen Murray
- Saints and stars : sainthood for the 21st century / James F. Hopgood
- I quit my job for a funeral : the mourning and empowering of a Japanese rock star / Carolyn S. Stevens
- Popular culture canonization : Elvis Presley as saint and savior / Erika Doss
- Saints and health : a micro-macro interaction perspective / Walter Randolph Adams.