TY - BOOK ID - 77870326 TI - The making of saints PY - 2005 SN - 0817380884 9780817380885 0817314555 9780817314552 0817351795 9780817351793 PB - Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Press DB - UniCat KW - Saints. KW - Persons UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77870326 AB - Celebrities and popular icons are increasingly ubiquitous figures of a 21st century postmodern world. Some, in death, blur age-old distinctions of sanctification and trespass on sacred ground long held exclusively by religious saints. An emerging continuum is transforming that sacred arena and raising a number of important issues, including the nature of the relationships between the worshipped and the worshipful and the types of institutions that sustain them. The Making of Saints: Contesting Sacred Ground investigates a number of religious leaders, healers, folk saints ER -