Our Lady of the Nations: Apparitions of Mary in 20th-Century Catholic Europe

ISBN-13: 9780198788645 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 240 str.

Chris Maunder

Opis

This work explores the social histories of the twentieth-century Marian apparitions in Europe, looking at the ecclesiastical response, and examining the Mariology that is adopted by the devotees.

Recenzje

[Maunder] is a judicious guide to the main themes and his book can be recommended as an introduction.

O autorze

Chris Maunder is a senior lecturer in Theology & Religious Studies at York St John University; he has worked there as Head of Department and Head of both B.A. and M.A. programmes, but is now semi-retired. Since completing a PhD at the University of Leeds in 1991, he has written several articles on the European apparitions of Mary. Whilst being a scholar of Catholic popular religion in his professional life, he is also passionate about Marian shrines as a personal interest, visiting them across Europe and helping to maintain his local shrine, a 15th-century rock chapel in Knaresborough, Yorkshire.