TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hopgood,James F.
TI  - The making of saints: contesting sacred ground 
SN  - 9780817380885
AV  - BL488 .M35 2005eb
U1  - 306.4 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Tuscaloosa
PB  - University of Alabama Press
KW  - Saints
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Cultural
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Cultural Policy
KW  - Popular Culture
KW  - fast
KW  - Aufsatzsammlung
KW  - gnd
KW  - Heiligkeit
KW  - Heiliger
KW  - Heiligen
KW  - gtt
KW  - Interculturele vergelijking
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - gtlm
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-211) and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2011
N2  - This text investigates a number of religious leaders, healers, folk saints, and popular icons; seeking to identify their commonalities and discover how they speak to the same inner yearnings of human beings for gods and heroes
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