The making of saints :  contesting sacred ground / 
edited by James F. Hopgood. 
 - xxi, 228 páginas :  ilustraciones 
<br/><br/>Incluye bibliografía (p. [187]-211). 
<br/><br/>Saints and near-saints in transition : the sacred, the secular, and the popular / June Macklin -- The making of saints and the vicissitudes of charisma in Netivot, Israel / Yoram Bilu -- Presence of the king : the vitality of the image of King Chulalongkorn for modern urban Thailand / Irene Stengs -- Evita : a case of political canonization / Roberto Bosca -- Desperately seeking something : Che Guevara as secular saint / Phyllis Passariello -- Teresa Urrea, Santa de Cabora and early Chicana? : the politics of representation, identity, and social memory / Gillian E. Newell -- Spirits of a holy land : place and time in a modern Mexican religious movement / William Breen Murray -- Saints and stars : sainthood for the 21st century / James F. Hopgood -- I quit my job for a funeral : the mourning and empowering of a Japanese rock star / Carolyn S. Stevens -- Popular culture canonization : Elvis Presley as saint and savior / Erika Doss -- Saints and health : a micro-macro interaction perspective / Walter Randolph Adams. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0817314555 0817351795 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Santos.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.4  / M235 2005