A01=Gerald Parsons
Ambrogio Sansedoni
Author_Gerald Parsons
Azione Cattolica
Azione Cattolica Italiana
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Catherine's Cult
Catherine's Head
Catherine's Letters
Catherine's Life
Catherine's Proclamation
catherines
Catherine’s Cult
Catherine’s Head
Catherine’s Letters
Catherine’s Life
Catherine’s Proclamation
Civic Pantheon
Civil Religion
civil religion evolution in Europe
co-patron
Co-patron Saint
del
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European religious identity
festa
Festa Nazionale
Giovani Italiane
head
Italian saints history
La Nazione
La Patrona
mappamondo
Memorie Domenicane
nazione
palazzo
Palazzo Pubblico
Piccole Italiane
Pius II
pubblico
religious sociology
ritual studies
sainthood and politics
sala
Sala Del Mappamondo
Sienese Civil Religion
Sienese Government
Sienese Saints
Sixth Centenary
social history of religion
Votive Lamp
Product details
- ISBN 9780754656456
- Weight: 598g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 16 Sep 2008
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book examines the origins, development and history of the cult of Saint Catherine of Siena. Gerald Parsons argues that the cult of Catherine of Siena constitutes a remarkable example of the cult of a particular saint which, across more than six centuries, has been the vehicle for an evolving sequence of civil religious rituals and meanings. He shows how the cult of this particular saint developed, firstly, as an expression of Sienese civil religion; secondly, as a focus for Italian civil religion; and finally into an expression of European civil religion. Instead of the predominantly devotional - and frequently essentially hagiographical - approach of much of the literature on Catherine of Siena, Parsons examines the significance of her cult from the perspective of civil religion and the social history of religion.
Gerald Parsons is Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies, Open University, UK.
