St. Francis of America (eBook)

How a Thirteenth-Century Friar Became America's Most Popular Saint

Patricia Appelbaum (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2015
288 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-2375-7 (ISBN)

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How did a thirteenth-century Italian friar become one of the best-loved saints in America? Around the nation today, St. Francis of Assisi is embraced as the patron saint of animals, beneficently presiding over hundreds of Blessing of the Animals services on October 4, St. Francis's Catholic feast day. Not only Catholics, however, but Protestants and other Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, and nonreligious Americans commonly name him as one of their favorite spiritual figures. Drawing on a dazzling array of art, music, drama, film, hymns, and prayers, Patricia Appelbaum explains what happened to make St. Francis so familiar and meaningful to so many Americans. Appelbaum traces popular depictions and interpretations of St. Francis from the time when non-Catholic Americans "e;discovered"e; him in the nineteenth century to the present. From poet to activist, 1960s hippie to twenty-first-century messenger to Islam, St. Francis has been envisioned in ways that might have surprised the saint himself. Exploring how each vision of St. Francis has been shaped by its own era, Appelbaum reveals how St. Francis has played a sometimes countercultural but always aspirational role in American culture. St. Francis's American story also displays the zest with which Americans borrow, lend, and share elements of their religious lives in everyday practice.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.7.2015
• Zusatzinfo: 15 halftones, appends., notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Schlagworte: "All Creatures of our God and King" • animal blessings • animals and religion • Animal Theology • animal turn • Anna Jameson • Anti-Modernism • Bernard Malamud • Blessing of the Animals • blessings of animals • "Brother Sun • Buddhism • Catholic Church • consensus culture • Creation Spirituality • Dorothy Day • earth • Ecology • Emerging Church • Environmentalism • environmentalist movement • evangelical • evangelicalism • Evangelicals • Father Cuthbert • Folklore • Francis of Assisi • Franco Zeffirelli • Free Church of Berkeley • Garden History • Gardens • garden statuary • Giotto • G. K. Chesterton • Gretel Ehrlich • Hinduism • Hippies • History and Memory • Hymnody • Hymns • Islam • James Stephen • Jewish • Jews • Jim Wallis • John Ruskin • Judaism • Justine Kershaw • Landscape • Landscape history • Laura Hobgood-Oster • Laurence Housman • Leonardo Boff • Liberal • Liberation Theology • lived religion • Lynn White • mainline Protestant • "Make me a channel" • margaret oliphant • Mark Galli • Matthew Arnold • Matthew Fox • meaning of sainthood • Memory • Military • MONEY • music • Nature • Nikos Kazantzakis • non-Catholic • Pacifism • Paul Sabatier • Paul Santmire • Paul Winter • Peace Movements • Pilgrimage • pope francis • Postmodernism • Poverty • "prayer of St. Francis" • property • Protestant • religious practice • Robert Lawson • roman catholics • Rufus M. Jones • Saint Francis • San Francisco • sense of place • Sister Moon" • Social Action • Social Criticism • Social Gospel • Spirituality • St. Francis • Theater • Theology • Tony Duquette • unaffiliated • Vedanta • Victorian • Vida Scudder • voluntary simplicity • Walter Rauschenbusch
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-2375-7 / 1469623757
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-2375-7 / 9781469623757