| Description |
1 online resource (399 pages) : illustrations |
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KADOC studies on religion, culture & society |
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KADOC studies on religion, culture, and society.
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| Contents |
Envisioning and exploring Mary's theater of war / Peter Jan Margry -- Church and ideologies. The Virgin Mary and Cold War politics: Pope, Church, and devotees in the context of postwar Italy / Robert Ventresca -- From Fátima to Kérizinen: devotional backgrounds and resouces for the Cold War / Sandra L. Zimdars-Swartz -- Likeness and message in Our Lady of Fátima from world war to cold war / David Morgan -- Politico-devotional realms. The changing face of the enemy: the Belgian apparition sites in the 1940s / Tine Van Osselaer -- Darkness at noon: the visions at Cuevas de Vinromá in 1947 in a divided Spain during the Cold War / William A. Christian Jr. and Marina Sanahuja Beltran -- Apparitions of the Mother of God in socialist Poland in the early years of the Cold War / Agnieszka Halemba and Konrad Siekierski -- Marian piety and the Cold War in the United States / Thomas Kselman -- The Virgin and the bomb: the Bayside apparitions, Cold War anxieties and Marian anticommunism / Daniel Wojcik -- "Wearing uneasily the mantle of peace:" Marian devotion and the politics of fear in Cold War Australia / Katharine Massam -- Armies and crusades. Mission and protection: bringing Fátima to West Germany in the early Cold War years / Monique Scheer -- Contested Cold War Marian politics: the Dutch pentagon and the empire of Mary / Peter Jan Margry -- Mary's media in the Cold War Philippines / Deirdre de la Cruz -- "No consecration, no peace!" The Fatima Center and the Russian annexation of Crimea / Michael Agnew -- Conclusion and outlook / Peter Jan Margry |
| Summary |
One hardly known but fascinating aspect of the Cold War was the use of the holy Virgin Mary as a warrior against atheist ideologies. After the Second World War, there was a remarkable rise in the West of religiously inflected rhetoric against what was characterised as "godless communism". The leaders of the Roman Catholic Church not only urged their followers to resist socialism, but along with many prominent Catholic laity and activist movements they marshaled the support of Catholics into a spiritual holy war. In this book, experts address a variety of grassroots and Church initiatives related to Marian politics, the hausse of Marian apparitions during the Cold War period, and the present-day revival of Marian devotional culture. By identifying and analysing the militant side of Mary in the Cold War context on a global scale for the first time, this book will draw the attention of readers interested in religious history, the history of the Cold War, and twentieth-century international history. -- Publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Electronic resource, viewed: March 5, 2021 |
| Subject |
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Devotion to.
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| SUBJECT |
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Devotion to
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Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint fast |
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Communism and Christianity -- Catholic Church.
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Cold War -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.
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Communism and Christianity -- Catholic Church
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Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary
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War -- Religious aspects
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| Genre/Form |
e-books.
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Livres numériques.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Margry, P. J. (Peter Jan), editor.
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| ISBN |
9789461663566 |
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9461663560 |
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