Stigmata: A Medieval Phenomenon in a Modern Age
by Harrison, Ted
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0312113722
- ISBN 13
- 9780312113728
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Synopsis
A ten-year-old black girl in California bled from her palms, feet, right side, and the middle of her forehead for nineteen days in 1972, until good Friday, when the bleeding stopped. A Washington, D.C., priest experienced spontaneous bleeding from his writsts, feet, and right side in 1991. Since St. Francis of Assisi in the thirteenth century, ordinary people have suffered spontaneous lesions and bleeding resembling the wounds received by Christ during the crucifixion. Until recently, the occurrences of this religious and medical phenomenon had been limited to European cultures, but more and more cases of stigmata are being reported in Latin America and the United States. Including a startling analysis of the socioeconomic conditions that might give rise to the emergence of stigmatics at the end of another millennium and interviews with a medical expert on stigmata, this intriguing and objective examination is one of the most controversial books about religious phenomena since Embraced by the Light .
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- B-Line Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 44274
- Title
- Stigmata: A Medieval Phenomenon in a Modern Age
- Author
- Harrison, Ted
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0312113722
- ISBN 13
- 9780312113728
- Publisher
- St Martins Pr
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1994
- Keywords
- 0312113722
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