Supernatural bodies

Stigmata in modern Britain and Ireland

By: Kristof Smeyers

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Hardcover | 24 September 2024

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264 Pages

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This book is the first in-depth study of the changing perceptions and receptions of supernatural bodies in modern Britain and Ireland. It focuses on one phenomenon that became hotly contested and discussed in the public sphere between 1840 and 1940: the stigmata.

In 1874, an Irish reporter asked why the wounds of the crucified Christ on mortal bodies could 'not be discussed with calmness...without indulging in angry rhetoric'. Supernatural bodies takes that question seriously. It draws on previously unexamined archival materials to place supernatural bodies at the heart of long-lasting discussions about the position of Roman Catholicism in society; the supernatural in modern Christianity and society; the authority of sciences; the relationship between Britain and Ireland, and between Britain and the Continent.

Through the lens of stigmata controversies, this book shows how these discussions could converge around supernatural bodies.

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"Smeyers carefully weaves the "big" themes of interdenominational conflict, questions of orthodoxy and proof, and debates on the meaning of bodily phenomena, with the "small" histories of individuals and communities into which apparently miraculous events had (generally unexpectedly) intruded."
- Irish Theological Quarterly

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