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The Emotional Life of Contemporary Public Memorials: Towards a Theory of Temporary Memorials
1st Edition
By Erika Doss
March 18, 2008
From the commemoration of September 11to the Holocaust memorial in Berlin, recent decades have witnessed a substantial increase in the number of new publicmemorials built in both Europe and theUnited States. This volume considers thecontemporary explosion of public commemoration in terms of changed...
The Sacred Heart of Jesus: The Visual Evolution of a Devotion
1st Edition
By David Morgan
March 18, 2008
Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus has been controversial from its beginning in the life of the French Visitationist nun Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647-1690), who established the devotion after a series of mystical visions of Christ. Under the leadership of Sister Sophie Barat, founder of the ...