Our Lady of the Island: Our Lady of Lourdes grotto reproduction and use in two Newfoundland communities ...
Replicated Catholic grottos are local religious shrines fashioned after famous Catholic sites. Many of these reproduced shrines are dedicated to Mary, the Mother of Jesus, and are designed after global Marian apparition sites, such as Our Lady of Lourdes in southwestern France. Replicated grottos pl...
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ftdatacite:10.48336/pw9c-7s43 2023-07-23T04:20:23+02:00 Our Lady of the Island: Our Lady of Lourdes grotto reproduction and use in two Newfoundland communities ... Kiigemagi, Cynthia A. 2023 https://dx.doi.org/10.48336/pw9c-7s43 https://research.library.mun.ca/15948/ en eng Memorial University of Newfoundland Text article-journal ScholarlyArticle 2023 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.48336/pw9c-7s43 2023-07-03T19:11:39Z Replicated Catholic grottos are local religious shrines fashioned after famous Catholic sites. Many of these reproduced shrines are dedicated to Mary, the Mother of Jesus, and are designed after global Marian apparition sites, such as Our Lady of Lourdes in southwestern France. Replicated grottos play a part in Catholic communities through collective identity, religious narrative, and individual and communal devotions. Researching the replication of Lourdes's shrines can offer insight into the religious practices of groups and communities and the spiritual nuances of vernacular belief. This thesis examines two replicated Our Lady of Lourdes grottos in Renews and Flatrock, Newfoundland, and Labrador, Canada, by locating how these communities creatively negotiate local devotional sites. The central focus of this thesis lies in both the material context of these grottos and the oral narratives which have developed around them. These memetic edifices developed as a form of “creative theology” by the people and ... Text Newfoundland DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Newfoundland Canada Marian ENVELOPE(-58.750,-58.750,-62.217,-62.217) Grotto ENVELOPE(-64.252,-64.252,-65.242,-65.242) Flatrock ENVELOPE(-120.283,-120.283,56.267,56.267) |
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Replicated Catholic grottos are local religious shrines fashioned after famous Catholic sites. Many of these reproduced shrines are dedicated to Mary, the Mother of Jesus, and are designed after global Marian apparition sites, such as Our Lady of Lourdes in southwestern France. Replicated grottos play a part in Catholic communities through collective identity, religious narrative, and individual and communal devotions. Researching the replication of Lourdes's shrines can offer insight into the religious practices of groups and communities and the spiritual nuances of vernacular belief. This thesis examines two replicated Our Lady of Lourdes grottos in Renews and Flatrock, Newfoundland, and Labrador, Canada, by locating how these communities creatively negotiate local devotional sites. The central focus of this thesis lies in both the material context of these grottos and the oral narratives which have developed around them. These memetic edifices developed as a form of “creative theology” by the people and ... |
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Kiigemagi, Cynthia A. Our Lady of the Island: Our Lady of Lourdes grotto reproduction and use in two Newfoundland communities ... |
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Our Lady of the Island: Our Lady of Lourdes grotto reproduction and use in two Newfoundland communities ... |
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Our Lady of the Island: Our Lady of Lourdes grotto reproduction and use in two Newfoundland communities ... |
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Our Lady of the Island: Our Lady of Lourdes grotto reproduction and use in two Newfoundland communities ... |
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Our Lady of the Island: Our Lady of Lourdes grotto reproduction and use in two Newfoundland communities ... |
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Our Lady of the Island: Our Lady of Lourdes grotto reproduction and use in two Newfoundland communities ... |
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our lady of the island: our lady of lourdes grotto reproduction and use in two newfoundland communities ... |
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Memorial University of Newfoundland |
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2023 |
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https://dx.doi.org/10.48336/pw9c-7s43 https://research.library.mun.ca/15948/ |
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