Chris Maunder is a senior lecturer in Theology & Religious Studies at York St John University; he has worked there as Head of Department and Head of both B.A. and M.A. programmes, but is now semi-retired. Since completing a PhD at the University of Leeds in 1991, he has written several articles on the European apparitions of Mary. Whilst being a scholar of Catholic popular religion in his professional life, he is also passionate about Marian shrines as a personal interest, visiting them across Europe and helping to maintain his local shrine, a 15th-century rock chapel in Knaresborough, Yorkshire.
Preface
List of Illustrations
1: Introduction
2: Immaculate and Sorrowful Mary: Apparitions 1830-1917
3: Sister Lúcia's Narrative of War and Peace
4: Catholic Interpretations
5: Women as Visionaries
6: Children as Visionaries
7: Basque Raggle-Taggle: Ezkioga
8: Between the Wars: the Belgian Visionary Epidemic
9: 'When the Gestapo Hounded the Apparitions': Mary in Nazi Germany
10: Hearts and Nations: Visionary Women as Popular Theologians
11: The Cold War and the Marian Cult
12: Vatican II: Visionary Reactions to Change in the Church?
13: Medjugorje: the Queen of Peace and a Civil War
14: Grottos, Statues, and Visions in Ireland
15: The 1980s: Italy, Spain, France, and England
16: Conclusion
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