Lourdes

Body And Spirit in the Secular Age

Ruth Harris (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

496 Seiten

2008
Penguin Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-14-103848-3 (ISBN)

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Places Lourdes and its attendant spiritual movement firmly at the centre of French history and shows its significance in the country's development.

Lourdes was at the very centre of nineteenth century debates on religion, science and medicine. Both the Church and secularists championed the 'miracle' town as crucial in shaping how society should think about the mind, body and spirit. Since the ‘visions’ of Bernadette Soubirous in 1858 transformed the quiet Pyrenean town into an international tourist and pilgrimage destination, it has been a site for controversy. In her well-crafted and carefully researched book, Harris deftly places Lourdes and its attendant spiritual movement firmly at the centre of French history and shows its significance in the country’s development.

Ruth Harris is Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at New College, Oxford.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	4.9.2008
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	500 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Liturgik / Homiletik
ISBN-10	0-14-103848-9 / 0141038489
ISBN-13	978-0-14-103848-3 / 9780141038483
Zustand	Neuware