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The Virgin's Apparition in Nineteenth Century Ireland

Autor: Eugene Hynes

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In 1879 local people reported an apparition of the Virgin Mary and other supernatural personages at...

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Autor

Eugene Hynes

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2008

Pagini

388

EAN

9781859184400

ISBN

1859184405

Enbook ID

05119118

Editura

Cork University Press

Greutate

782

Dimensiuni

168 x 242 x 33

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In 1879 local people reported an apparition of the Virgin Mary and other supernatural personages at Knock, a poor rural village in western Ireland. In contrast to devotional or dismissive accounts, the author draws on both insiders' views and his training as a sociologist to show how the apparition was related to the local social context including economic, cultural, religious, political and historical dimensions.Drawing on new and neglected sources for evidence, Hynes pays particular attention to the individuals most directly involved including the seers, local clergy, Land League activists, various promoters, and others. The author looks through participants' eyes as much as possible. To understand what those eyes saw, this book examines the local scene for half a century before the apparition. His deep knowledge of the local context enables the author to develop understandings of key persons and events before and around the apparition. Using the Knock case, the author challenges usually accepted explanations of changes in nineteenth-century Irish Catholicism. This book is important for those interested in the links between official and local religion especially in Irish Catholicism, for students of apparitions generally, for anyone interested in bottom-up approaches to social and cultural history, and especially for students of nineteenth-century Ireland.

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