Consuming visions : mass culture and the Lourdes shrine - Kaufman, Suzanne K., 1965- (Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2005)
Introduction : religious and modern : pilgrimage to Lourdes -- Remaking Lourdes : Catholic pilgrimage as modern spectacle -- Commercialized pilgrimage and religious debasement -- Scientific sensationalism and the miracle cure -- Female pilgrims and spiritual authority -- Public wager : publicity and the truth of the cure -- Epilogue : politics and mass culture : representing Lourdes in the twentieth century.
Includes bibliographical references (p [235]-245) and index.
Keywords: Christian shrines -- France -- Lourdes; Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages -- France -- Lourdes; Popular culture -- France -- Lourdes; Popular culture -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Lourdes (France) -- Religious life and customs