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In the past two centuries hundreds of apparitions of the Virgin Mary have been reported, drawing crowds to the seers and the sites and constituting events of great religious significance for millions of people worldwide. Here Sandra Zimdars-Swartz provides a detective-like investigation of the experiences and interpretations of six major apparitions, including those at La Salette and Lourdes in France during the mid-nineteenth century; at Fatima, Portugal, in 1917; and the more recent ones at San Damiano, Italy; Garabandal, Spain; and Medjugorje, Yugoslavia, where the apparitions continue. Adopting a phenomenological approach to these "encounters with Mary"--one that is neither apologetic nor antagonistic--the author explores the tension between the personal meaning of the events for their subjects and the public appropriation of this meaning by a larger religious community. Along the way she examines the backgrounds of the seers, their willingness or reluctance to talk about the apparitions and their messages, the amount of emotional support they received from family and community as news of the apparitions spread, the reports of miracles at apparition sites, the reactions of local authorities, and the steps taken by the Roman Catholic Church in officially recognizing or rejecting the apparitions as worthy of belief. The author concludes with a survey of religious worldviews based on Marian apparitions, focusing especially on the now-popular transcultural apocalyptic nature of these messages to the modern world.Originally published in 1991.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
RELIGION / Christian Theology / Christology. --- Mary, --- Apparitions and miracles --- History
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Si les miracles de Lourdes sont célèbres, que savons-nous des enquêtes qui sous-tendent leur proclamation ? Cet ouvrage propose de se pencher sur ce que font concrètement les médecins du sanctuaire lorsqu'ils doivent se prononcer sur une guérison déclarée « miraculeuse ». Comment affrontent-ils la question de la preuve dans le cours de leurs expertises ? À quels signes accordent-ils du crédit ? Quels sont les procédés par lesquels ils éprouvent la solidité des faits qui leur sont soumis ? Comment traitent-ils les cas où les preuves font défaut ? En s'intéressant au miracle en train de se faire, et en le présentant comme le résultat d'un travail d'enquête complexe au résultat incertain, cette investigation sociologique permet de penser à nouveaux frais les rap-ports nuancés qui peuvent s'instaurer entre science et religion. L'Église ne cherche-t-elle pas à mobiliser à rebours les plus fines capacités de l'explication médicale afin de garantir le caractère « inexplicable » des guérisons déclarées au sein du sanctuaire de Lourdes ?
Mary, --- Apparitions and miracles --- Bureau médical (Lourdes, France) --- History.
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