Objects and Archives in Global Catholic Cultures

Mary Dunn is a professor in the Department of Theological Studies at Saint Louis University. Her books include Where Paralytics Walk and the Blind See: Stories of Sickness and Disability at the Juncture of Worlds and The Cruelest of All Mothers: Marie de l'Incarnation, Motherhood, and Christian Tradition. Anna Katharina Rudolph is a postdoctoral research fellow for the Global Catholic Research Initiative at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of Rewriting History and the Myth of the French Nation: The Hagiography of Radegund of Poi

"This fascinating collection examines Catholicism around the world and across time by focusing on objects that people deemed meaningful and powerful enough to carry and send huge distances, including relics, garments, icons, photographs, postcards, and pamphlets. Readers will come away with an understanding of the important role of material culture in building a complex and multicentric global Catholicism." -- Merry Wiesner-Hanks, editor in chief of The Cambridge World History "This meticulously researched volume offers an exciting overview of the many and diverse ways current scholars are doing global history, using Catholic archives and objects in motion to both build and interrogate connections. Whether it is pennies, body parts, holy vestments, wooden tablets, postcards, digital images, or curiosity about religion and imperialism that calls a reader to this anthology, they will emerge with a greater respect for how objects, and the scholars and people who interact with them, can resist and reimagine the world." -- Karin Velez, associate professor at Macalester College