Jeffrey S. Bennett's When the Sun Danced: Myth, Miracles, and Modernity in Early PDF

By Jeffrey S. Bennett

ISBN-10: 0813932483

ISBN-13: 9780813932484

ISBN-10: 0813932491

ISBN-13: 9780813932491

Between might and October of 1917, 3 younger shepherds have been reportedly visited six
occasions via an apparition of the Virgin Mary close to town of Fátima in Portugal. on the final
apparition occasion, nearly 70,000 viewers collected to witness a prophesied miracle
meant to persuade the general public that the children’s visions have been of divine foundation. The
miracle took the shape of a sunlight anomaly; witnesses claimed that the sunlight started to "dance."
Exploring the early improvement of the cult of the Virgin of Fátima and the overthrow of
the liberal, secular executive by way of pro-Catholic parts, Jeffrey Bennett bargains the first
book-length scholarly research of the cult’s courting to the increase of authoritarian
politics in Portugal. When the sunlight Danced offers a desirable examine the
cultural dynamics that trained the most turbulent classes within the nation’s
history.

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