Saints and Their Cults in the Atlantic World (The Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1570036306 ISBN 13: 9781570036309

Publisher: University of South Carolina Press, 2007

Synopsis

Saints and Their Cults in the Atlantic World traces the changing significance of a dozen saints and holy sites from the fourth century to the twentieth and from Africa, Sicily, Wales, and Iceland to Canada, Boston, Mexico, Brazil, and the Caribbean. Scholars representing the fields of history, art history, religious studies, and communications contribute their perspectives in this interdisciplinary collection, also notable as the first English language study of many of the saints treated in the volume. Several chapters chart the changing images and meanings of holy people as their veneration traveled from the Old World to the New; others describe sites and devotions that developed in the Americas. The ways that a group feels connected to the holy figure by ethnicity or regionalism proves to be a critical factor in a saint's reception, and many contributors discuss the tensions that develop between ecclesiastical authorities and communities of devotees.

About this title

About the Author:

Margaret Cormack is an associate professor of religious studies at the College of Charleston. A medievalist by training, her current research focuses on the religious and ecclesiastical history of Iceland.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1570036306
• ISBN 13: 9781570036309
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 296
• Editor: Cormack Margaret