TY - BOOK AU - Kaufman,Suzanne K. TI - Consuming visions: mass culture and the Lourdes shrine SN - 0801442486 (alk. paper) AV - BT653 .K38 2005 PY - 2005/// CY - Ithaca PB - Cornell University Press KW - Christian shrines KW - France KW - Lourdes KW - Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages KW - Popular culture KW - Religious aspects KW - Christianity KW - Lourdes (France) KW - Religious life and customs N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p [235]-245) and index; 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0418/2004013152.html ER -