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Bodies Pierced by the Cross: Popular Devotion, Popular Heresy
2021The mysticism of the high Middle Ages developed sympathy for the crucified Christ as the center of a new spirituality. The mysticism of Francis and Mechthild seek identification with Christ in the experience of mystical cocrucifixion. Francis’s stigmata and Mechthild’s erotic imagery signify this identification; both employ the cross on behalf of ...
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Popular and Elite Religion: the Church and Devotional Control
Studies in Church History, 2006Popular and elite are imprecise terms, but it may be possible to give them a closer definition by relating them to categories in the work of John Henry Newman. In 1877, Newman was growing old. He was republishing his Anglican writings, both to preserve what they contained of value and to draw what poison remained.
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Devotional Reading and Popular Poetry in Good Words
2019Focusing on Good Words as a representative example of the religious literary periodical, this chapter argues that the debut of Good Words in 1860 marks the rise of a different kind of religious periodical based on the literary models provided by the weeklies and monthlies discussed in the previous chapters.
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Popular Devotions, Power, and Religious Regimes in Catholic Dutch Brabant
Ethnology, 1985Etude sociologique des pelerinages dans le Brabant hollandais ou il existe plus de soixante-dix lieux et sanctuaires attirant de plus en plus de gens, alors que la pratique religieuse paroissiale tend a diminuer. L'etude porte sur un cas, le culte de saint Gerlach a Roersel, de 1490 a nos jours, et surtout au XIX-XX s.| au XV s., le saint y avait ...
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Lamps, lights and layfolk: `popular' devotion before the Black Death
Journal of Medieval History, 1999In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries as well as during the later middle ages, lay piety and devotion were expressed through grants for lights. The difference at the earlier time was that benefactions were made to a variety of agencies or religious institutions, so that such endowments by the laity were not confined to the parish church.
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Post 1755 Lisbon Earthquake Tiles as Signs of Popular Devotion
2023Medieval Ceramics: Journal of the Medieval Ceramics Research Group, 37-38, 53 ...
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Abstract This chapter explores two essential elements of the migrants’ Christian life, sacramental worship and devotional practices. Placing these two elements together is theologically unusual, at least in Catholic theology, which makes a stark differentiation between the liturgy or divine worship, especially sacramental celebration ...
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Jurists’ Responses to Popular Devotional Practices in Medieval Islam
2014This chapter takes as its starting point Bernard Weiss's central idea that jurists consistently upheld the textualist approach to determine the law. Weiss defines textualism specifically as "an approach to the formulation of the law that seeks to ground all law in a closed canon of foundational texts and refuses to accord validity to law that is ...
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Why Crashaw was not Catholic: The Passion and Popular Protestant Devotion
English Literary Renaissance, 2013AbstractFor centuries, the poetry of Richard Crashaw has been marginalized as fundamentally alien to the mainstream of English devotional literature. In this prevailing view, Crashaw's poetry is sensuous rather than intellectual, affective rather than spiritual, and Roman Catholic rather than natively English and Protestant.
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