Flawed Sainthood in Popular Culture: Maradona's Culture of Commemoration in Naples
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel15080981" target="_blank" >10.3390/rel15080981</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Flawed Sainthood in Popular Culture: Maradona's Culture of Commemoration in Naples
Original language description
There is currently a certain pressure from various mnemonic communities, animated by vernacular interests, to canonize new saints within what is regarded as the flawed saints' cultural-political movement. Among these new, uncanonized saints, whose memory is commemorated unofficially in various cultural-political registers, there is also the football star Diego Armando Maradona, called by his millions of fans "the Hand of God" (La Mano de Dios). The commemorative culture that thrived around Maradona's persona-materialized in artefacts, shrines, icon-like paintings, prints, graffiti, stencils, and other memorabilia-do not fit the customary narratives of sainthood, nor to the display and content of the recently inaugurated (2023) memorial to the new martyrs of both the 20th and 21st centuries at Saint Bartholomew Basilica in Rome. The article argues that the commemoration of Maradona by his fans in Italy, Argentina, and worldwide is enacted in pop culture formats aimed at addressing different sets of contemporary mnemonic and spiritual needs. The aim is to offer a fresh conceptual engagement with the contemporary cultural-political phenomenon of "flawed saints" commemoration through the lens of contemporary popular culture, taking the culture of commemoration of Diego Maradona as a case study.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Religions
ISSN
2077-1444
e-ISSN
2077-1444
Volume of the periodical
15
Issue of the periodical within the volume
8
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
15
Pages from-to
981
UT code for WoS article
001305267200001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85202611490