On the journey to sainthood: Father Damien and the presentation of missionary work in nineteenth-century Hawai’i in a Belgian museum
Father Damien was a Roman Catholic missionary who lived in Hawai‘i amongst people with leprosy, currently known as Hansen’s disease. He eventually contracted the disease himself and, after his death in 1889, was transformed into the martyred icon (later saint) of Moloka‘i. This paper explores the ro...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
2023
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Material religion
Year: 2023, Volume: 19, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-33 |
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Deveuster, Damiaan, Saint 1840-1889
/ Museums
/ Museification
/ Sacralization
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion KCD Hagiography; saints RJ Mission; missiology TJ Modern history TK Recent history |
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Damien Museum
B Hawai‘i B Beatification B Father Damien B Hansen’s disease |
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| Summary: | Father Damien was a Roman Catholic missionary who lived in Hawai‘i amongst people with leprosy, currently known as Hansen’s disease. He eventually contracted the disease himself and, after his death in 1889, was transformed into the martyred icon (later saint) of Moloka‘i. This paper explores the role of a museum in remembering a missionary saint by focusing on the Damien Museum in Tremelo, Belgium. It does so by focusing on the role of material objects as an essential element of religious devotion. |
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| ISSN: | 1751-8342 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Material religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/17432200.2022.2134687 |