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American Catholicism

American Catholicism. Multiplicity Experimentation Democratic tendencies Ethnicities Public Responsibility. Characteristics of Devotionalism. Specialized Language Sacramental conscience Selective seeing Affective bonds Further action Interpenetration. The Rosary (a garland of roses)

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American Catholicism

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  1. American Catholicism Multiplicity Experimentation Democratic tendencies Ethnicities Public Responsibility

  2. Characteristics of Devotionalism • Specialized Language • Sacramental conscience • Selective seeing • Affective bonds • Further action • Interpenetration

  3. The Rosary (a garland of roses) • What is it? • Sources--”myth” and “fact” • Church seyz: • Supremi Apostolatus Officio, Leo XIII 1883 • Marilais Cultus, John XXIII, 1974 • Rosarium Virginis Mariae, John Paul II, 2002

  4. Marian Devotion • Special Status of Mary • Immaculate Conception, 1854 Puis XI • Assumption 1950, Pius XII • Co-Redemptoress, • Popular Cults • General Characteristics • Miraculous Medal, 1830 • Lourdes (St. Bernadette), 1858 • Fatima, 1917 • Medjugore, 1981 • Marialis cultus 1974, Paul VI • Explanations • Organizations

  5. Pilgrimages • Some types • Characteristics • Victor Turner’s theory • Transformational experience • Liminality • communitas

  6. Shrines • Types • Prototypical • Transplanted • Replica • Apparition • Shrines in the U.S.

  7. GroupworkThank You St. Jude • What does Orsi mean by “imagination?” • What are some of the tensions at the shrine or between people/groups at the shrine of St. Jude? • How can you relate Orsi’s work to any of the theories of religion we talked about the first day of class? • Why does it seem that women rely on St. Jude more than men? • What does St. Jude “do” for the women who are devoted to him?

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