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Pages: 320
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-01-15 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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Beheading the Saint
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Pages: 247
Authors: Geneviève Zubrzycki
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-12-19 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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The province of Quebec used to be called the priest-ridden province by its Protestant neighbors in Canada. During the 1960s, Quebec became radically secular, di
The Lay Saint
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Pages: 237
Authors: Mary Harvey Doyno
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-10-15 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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In The Lay Saint, Mary Harvey Doyno investigates the phenomenon of saintly cults that formed around pious merchants, artisans, midwives, domestic servants, and
The Making of Saints
Language: en
Pages: 253
Authors: James F Hopgood
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-04-24 - Publisher: University of Alabama Press

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A multidisciplinary study of the commonalities between heroes, icons, saints, and their institutions, across several cultures.
Making Saints in Modern China
Language: en
Pages: 529
Authors: David Ownby
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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"Sainthood" has been, and remains, a contested category in China, given the commitment of China's modern leadership to secularization, modernization, and revolu