Jill Krebs

Our Lady of Emmitsburg, Visionary Culture, and Catholic Identity (eBook, ePUB)

Seeing and Believing

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This ethnography explores the community of believers in a series of Marian apparitions in rural Emmitsburg, Maryland, asking what it means to call oneself a Catholic and child of Our Lady in this context, what it means to believe in an apparition, and what it means to communicate with divine presence on earth. Believers fashion themselves as devotees of Our Lady in several ways. Through autobiography, they look backward in time to see their lives as leading up to their participation in the prayer group or in some cases moving to Emmitsburg. By observing and telling miracle stories, they adopt an enchanted worldview in which the miraculous becomes everyday. Through relationships with Our Lady, their lives are enriched and even transformed. When they negotiate institutional loyalty and individual autonomy, they affirm their own authority and Catholic identity. Finally, through social media, they expand their devotional networks in ways that shift authority structures and empower individuals. Individuals engage beliefs, practices, and attitudes both arising from and resisting elements of modernity, religious pluralism and religious decline, empowerment and perceived disempowerment, tradition and innovation, and institutional loyalty and perceived disloyalty to reveal one way of understanding Catholic identity amidst the shifts and flows of modern change.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498523561
• Artikelnr.: 44847377

Autorenporträt

Jill M. Krebs is academic programs coordinator at McDaniel College.

Inhaltsangabe

"It's probably about the most Catholic town in America": Introduction
"The holiness was palpable": The Apparitions and Catholics in Context"It is
holy ground": Miracles and Visionary Culture Identity"Our Lady's got that
maternal thing": Relationships with Our Lady in Visionary Culture"It hasn't
made me think that I'm not a good Catholic": Visionary Culture Identity in
the Catholic Institutional Framework"The truth of God must erupt as a
volcano": New Social Media and Global Catholicism"If it's true or if it's
not true really doesn't matter to me": Conclusions