Consuming visions : mass culture and the Lourdes shrine /

Consuming visions : mass culture and the Lourdes shrine /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Kaufman, Suzanne K., 1965-
Imprint:	Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2005.
Description:	viii, 255 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Christian shrines -- France -- Lourdes. Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages -- France -- Lourdes. Popular culture -- France -- Lourdes. Popular culture -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages. Christian shrines. Popular culture. Popular culture -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. Lourdes (France) -- Religious life and customs. France -- Lourdes.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5568428

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ISBN:	0801442486 (alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-245) and index.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : religious and modern : pilgrimage to Lourdes
1. Remaking Lourdes : Catholic pilgrimage as modern spectacle
2. Commercialized pilgrimage and religious debasement
3. Scientific sensationalism and the miracle cure
4. Female pilgrims and spiritual authority
5. Public wager : publicity and the truth of the cure
Epilogue : politics and mass culture : representing Lourdes in the twentieth century.