Lourdes: Body and Spirit in the Secular Age by Ruth Harris
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Lourdes
Lourdes
$10.39
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SeriesAllen Lane History S.
Summary
This text is a history of the pilgrimage to Lourdesand an an account of a world of religious beliefs which challenges the view that the spirit of modern Europe is a secular one. It explains how the town became the greatest of all Christian healing shrines, and how it prospered in a secular age.
Lourdes Summary
Table of Contents
Part 1 The Lourdes of the apparitions: town, region, family; the apparitions and their interpretation; after-visions - cultists and seers; the bishop, the nanny and the journalist - Lourdes emerges on to the national scene; Bernadette. Part 2 The Lourdes of pilgrimage: the battle of the books; the assumption and the foundations of pilgrimage; the past, the present and the rituals of modern pilgrimage; the cures; religion and science in the Third Republic.
Additional information
GOR001501817
9780713991864
0713991860
Lourdes: Body and Spirit in the Secular Age by Ruth Harris
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Penguin Books Ltd
1999-04-01
496
N/A
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