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Thank you, St. Jude [electronic resource] : women's devotion to the patron saint of hopeless causes / Robert A. Orsi.

By: Orsi, Robert AMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c1996Description: 1 online resource (xxi, 303 p.) : illISBN: 0585345465 (electronic bk.); 9780585345468 (electronic bk.); 9780300162691 (electronic bk.); 0300162693 (electronic bk.)Other title: Thank you, Saint JudeSubject(s): Jude, Saint -- Cult -- United States | Catholic women -- Religious life -- United States | United States -- Religious life and customs | RELIGION -- Christianity -- Catholic | Electronic books | Heiligenverering | Vrouwen | Judas Thadd�aus | Heiligenverehrung | Religi�oses Leben | USA | SOCIAL SCIENCE / GeneralGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Thank you, St. Jude.DDC classification: 282/.092 LOC classification: BT693 | .O77 1996ebOther classification: 11.54 Online resources: EBSCOhost
Contents:
"From South Chicago to heaven": the making of the national shrine of Saint Jude -- Hopeless causes and things despaired of -- Imagining women -- "I recognize Him when he turns": women imagining Jude -- "She would tell me her troubles, and I mine": hagiography as stories in two voices -- Healings -- "There's miracles, and miracles, and miracles": the cult of hopeless causes.
Summary: St. Jude, patron saint of hopeless causes, is the most popular saint of the American Catholic laity, particularly among women. This fascinating book describes how the cult of St. Jude originated in 1929, traces the rise in Jude's popularity over the next decades, and investigates the circumstances that led so many Catholic women to feel hopeless and to turn to St. Jude for help.Summary: Robert A. Orsi tells us that the women who were drawn to St. Jude - daughters and granddaughters of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and Ireland - were the first generations of Catholic women to make lives for themselves outside of their ethnic enclaves. Orsi explores the ambitions and dilemmas of these women as they dealt with the pressures of the Depression and the Second World War, made modern marriages for themselves, entered the workplace, took care of relatives in their old neighborhoods, and raised children in circumstances very different from those of their mothers and grandmothers. Drawing on testimonies written in the periodicals devoted to St. Jude and on interviews with women who felt their lives were changed by St. Jude's intervention, Orsi shows how devotion to St. Jude enabled these women to negotiate their way amid the conflicting expectations of their two cultures - American and Catholic.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-294) and index.

Description based on print version record.

"From South Chicago to heaven": the making of the national shrine of Saint Jude -- Hopeless causes and things despaired of -- Imagining women -- "I recognize Him when he turns": women imagining Jude -- "She would tell me her troubles, and I mine": hagiography as stories in two voices -- Healings -- "There's miracles, and miracles, and miracles": the cult of hopeless causes.

St. Jude, patron saint of hopeless causes, is the most popular saint of the American Catholic laity, particularly among women. This fascinating book describes how the cult of St. Jude originated in 1929, traces the rise in Jude's popularity over the next decades, and investigates the circumstances that led so many Catholic women to feel hopeless and to turn to St. Jude for help.

Robert A. Orsi tells us that the women who were drawn to St. Jude - daughters and granddaughters of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and Ireland - were the first generations of Catholic women to make lives for themselves outside of their ethnic enclaves. Orsi explores the ambitions and dilemmas of these women as they dealt with the pressures of the Depression and the Second World War, made modern marriages for themselves, entered the workplace, took care of relatives in their old neighborhoods, and raised children in circumstances very different from those of their mothers and grandmothers. Drawing on testimonies written in the periodicals devoted to St. Jude and on interviews with women who felt their lives were changed by St. Jude's intervention, Orsi shows how devotion to St. Jude enabled these women to negotiate their way amid the conflicting expectations of their two cultures - American and Catholic.

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