{"product_id":"making-and-remaking-saints-in-nineteenthcentury-britain-9780719096860","title":"Making and Remaking Saints in NineteenthCentury","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis original collection of essays examines for the first time the place of 'saints' and sanctity in nineteenth-century Britain. -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe editor of this book, a Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, has brought together a strong team of scholars who address a fascinating subject.\u003cbr\u003eChurch Times, November 2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘This splendid collection provides abundant evidence to support Clyde Binfield’s\u003cbr\u003edictum that the nineteenth century was ‘hagiology’s high noon’.’\u003cbr\u003eRobin Gill, Theology February 2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Making and Remaking Saints in Nineteenth-Century Britain will most certainly be a success for readers interested in the ways in which religious thought shaped and was shaped by the intellectual currents of the period.’\u003cbr\u003eDevon Fisher, Lenoir-Rhyne University, Journal of British Studies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘The editor is to be congratulated for having brought together such a selection of scholars, and for having presented a major contribution to the understanding of the religious and historical tensions of the period.’\u003cbr\u003eSerenhedd James, St Stephen’s House, Oxford, British Catholic History\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘This book does an excellent job of exploring the ways in which hagiography was rewritten and ecclesiastical history was contested. It does very valuable work in drawing attention to the interaction of Protestant and Catholic traditions and even occasionally gets into some daring and interesting territory in the course of discussions of the use of saints by freethinkers, atheists and spiritualists.’\u003cbr\u003eDominic Janes, Keele University , Journal of Ecclesiastical History\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Thinking with saints - Gareth Atkins \u003cbr\u003e 1. Paul - Michael Ledger-Lomas \u003cbr\u003e 2. The Virgin Mary - Carol Engelhardt Herringer \u003cbr\u003e 3. Claudia Rufina - Martha Vandrei \u003cbr\u003e 4. Patrick - Andrew R. Holmes \u003cbr\u003e 5. Thomas Becket - Nicholas Vincent \u003cbr\u003e 6. Thomas More - W. J. Sheils\u003cbr\u003e 7. Ignatius Loyola - Gareth Atkins \u003cbr\u003e 8. English Catholic martyrs - Lucy Underwood \u003cbr\u003e 9. Richard Baxter - Simon Burton \u003cbr\u003e 10. The Scottish Covenanters - James Coleman \u003cbr\u003e 11. John and Mary Fletcher - David R. Wilson \u003cbr\u003e 12. William Wilberforce and 'the Saints' - Roshan Allpress\u003cbr\u003e 13. Elizabeth Fry and Sarah Martin - Helen Rogers \u003cbr\u003e 14. John Henry Newman's Lives of the English Saints - Elizabeth Macfarlane \u003cbr\u003e 15. Thérèse of Lisieux - Alana Harris\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48884293566807,"sku":"9780719096860","price":81.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/making-and-remaking-saints-in-nineteenthcentury-britain-9780719096860","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}