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Knock : the Virgin's apparition in nineteenth-century Ireland / Eugene Hynes.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cork : Cork University Press, 2008.Description: xix, 368 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm. + hbkISBN:
  • 9781859184400
  • 9781859184400
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Partial contents:
What Daniel Campbell remembered -- Local worlds -- The role and the power of the priest -- Threats and balances -- The people make a saint -- Population and religious continuity -- Religion in pre-apparition Knock -- Authority structures shaken -- The social construction of the apparition -- Our lady and the clergy
Summary: 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 insiders' views and his training to show how the apparition was related to the local social context.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-361) and index.

What Daniel Campbell remembered -- Local worlds -- The role and the power of the priest -- Threats and balances -- The people make a saint -- Population and religious continuity -- Religion in pre-apparition Knock -- Authority structures shaken -- The social construction of the apparition -- Our lady and the clergy

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 insiders' views and his training to show how the apparition was related to the local social context.

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