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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Blaschke, Olaf

Titel

Marpingen: A Remote Village and Its Virgin in a Transnational Context

Ist Teil von

• Marian Devotions, Political Mobilization, and Nationalism in Europe and America, p.83-107

Ort / Verlag

Cham: Springer International Publishing

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Olaf Blaschke analyzes the transnational dimension of the Marian apparitions at Marpingen in 1876. He draws the attention on how transnational perspectives help to understand the character of the apparitions and the reactions of both the villagers and its opponents: the liberals and the state. As long as all relevant perspectives are considered adequately (among them local, political, national and social aspects, religious conflicts and gender history), the transnational factors—already carved out by David Blackbourn’s eminent classic about Marpingen—give a necessary explanation but not ample explanations for the phenomena. Blaschke concludes by showing how from the very beginning till the end, the “German Lourdes” had a transnational projection.