Astonishing scenes at the Scottish Lourdes: masculinity, the miraculous, and sectarian strife at Carfin, 1922-1945
This article examines the little-known history and, for a time, notoriety of Carfin, a Scottish Lourdes', re-created in 1921 in rural Lanarkshire. It explores the ways in which gendered, ethnic, sectarian and nationalist identities were negotiated and re-inscribed at this shrine commemorating...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University Press
[2015]
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The Innes review
Year: 2015, Volume: 66, Issue: 1, Pages: 102-129 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBF British Isles KCD Hagiography; saints KDB Roman Catholic Church NBE Anthropology NBJ Mariology |
| Further subjects: | B
male piety
B Saint Bernadette B Saint Thérèse of Lisieux B Masculinity B Thomas Nimmo Taylor B Ethnicity B Nationalism B Carfin B Sectarianism B Lourdes B Relics |
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| Summary: | This article examines the little-known history and, for a time, notoriety of Carfin, a Scottish Lourdes', re-created in 1921 in rural Lanarkshire. It explores the ways in which gendered, ethnic, sectarian and nationalist identities were negotiated and re-inscribed at this shrine commemorating the Virgin Mary and a pantheon of saints, in the context of interwar institutional insecurities about socialism, secularisation and the feminisation of religion. As a site for the materialisation and mobilisation of a robust Catholic masculinity, Carfin provided a space?-?outside of paid employment and beyond the labour movement?-?for channelling male piety, pride and self-esteem. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5219 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The Innes review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3366/inr.2015.0086 |