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Becoming holy in early Canada / Timothy G. Pearson.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion. Series two ; ; no. 70.Publisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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  • 9780773596450
  • 0773596453
  • 9780773596467
  • 0773596461
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Becoming holy in early Canada.DDC classification:
  • 282.092/271 23
LOC classification:
  • BX4659.C2 P42 2014
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)827403

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.

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.