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Jacobs, Karen 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1794-3078
(2023)
On the journey to sainthood: Father Damien and the presentation of missionary work in nineteenth-century Hawaiʻi in a Belgian museum.
Material Religion, 19 (1).
pp. 1-33.
ISSN 1743-2200
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Abstract
Father Damien was a Roman Catholic missionary who lived in Hawai‘i amongst people with leprosy, currently known as Hansen’s disease. He eventually contracted the disease himself and, after his death in 1889, was transformed into the martyred icon (later saint) of Moloka‘i. This paper explores the role of a museum in remembering a missionary saint by focusing on the Damien Museum in Tremelo, Belgium. It does so by focusing on the role of material objects as an essential element of religious devotion.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | damien museum,father damien,hansen’s disease,hawai‘i,beatification,visual arts and performing arts,religious studies ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1200/1213 |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Centres > Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Oct 2022 08:30 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Mar 2023 15:30 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/88891 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/17432200.2022.2134687 |
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