TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pearson,Timothy G.
TI  - Becoming holy in early Canada
T2  - McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion. Series two
SN  - 9780773596450
AV  - BX4659.C2 P42 2014
U1  - 282.092/271 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Montreal
PB  - McGill-Queen's University Press
KW  - Catholic Church
KW  - Canada
KW  - History
KW  - Église catholique
KW  - Histoire
KW  - fast
KW  - Christian saints
KW  - Cult
KW  - Holiness
KW  - History of doctrines
KW  - Christian hagiography
KW  - Saints chrétiens
KW  - Culte
KW  - Sainteté
KW  - Histoire des doctrines
KW  - Hagiographie chrétienne
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Catholic
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Church history
KW  - Histoire religieuse
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Based on the author's thesis (doctoral) -- McGill University, 2008, under title: Becoming holy in early Canada : performance and the making of holy persons in society and culture; Includes bibliographical references and index; Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Cult of the Saints and Early Canada; 2 Evangelism: Martyrdom; 3 Evangelism: Indigenous Holiness; 4 Charity: Domesticating Holiness; 5 Asceticism: Making a New Culture; 6 Miracles: Social Dramas and Community Bonds; 7 Hagiography: Writing Memory; Conclusion; Appendix: Holy Persons of New France; Abbreviations; Bibliography; Index
N2  - Recent years have witnessed a revival of interest in holy figures in Canada. From the reputations of popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI as prolific saint-makers to the canonization of two figures associated with Canada - Brother André Bessette in 2010 and Kateri Tekakwitha in 2012 - saints are suddenly in the news and a topic of conversation. In Becoming Holy in Early Canada, Timothy Pearson explores the roots of sanctity in Canada to discover why reputations for holiness developed in the early colonial period and how saints were made in the local and immediate contexts of everyday life. Pearson weaves together the histories of well-known figures such as Marie de l'Incarnation with those of largely forgotten local saints such as lay brother and carpenter Didace Pelletier and the Algonquin martyr Joseph Onaharé. Adopting an approach that draws on performance theory, ritual studies, and lived religion, he unravels the expectations, interactions, and negotiations that constituted holy performances. Because holy reputations developed over the course of individuals' lifetimes and in after-death relationships with local faith communities through belief in miracles, holy lives are best read as local, embedded, and contextualized histories. Placing colonial holy figures between the poles of local expectation and the universal Catholic theology of sanctity, Becoming Holy in Early Canada shows how reputations developed and individuals became local saints long before they came to the attention of the church in Rome
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