Index
“Abolition of Slavery, The” poster, 47 Abu-Hatseira, Rabbi Baruch (Baba Baruch), 27–32; autobiographical narrative, 28; change of physical topography of Netivot, 32; contribution to mystical and folkreligious beliefs, 35; entrepreneurial spirit of a “modernist” saint impresario, 26, 38; established self-legitimacy by emphasizing continuity from father to son, 27–32, 33; ethnically based popularity, 33; expansive style, 31; as a healer, 33; and Ifargan, 36; model for aspiring young Kabbalists, 40; organizational methods, 29–32, 34; tactics in pursuit of holiness, 39–40; traditional Moroccan gown, 33 Abu-Hatseira, Rabbi Israel (Baba Sali), 26; cult of, 36; hillulah, 31–32; image as propagated by Baba Baruch, 27–32; products carrying image, 30; rapid sancti¤cation , 26–29, 38; sanctuary, 26, 36, 40, 41n4; “selling” of, 29–30; transformation into the “national saint” of 1980s, 40 Abu-Hatseira, Rabbi Yaakov, 26, 28, 33, 36, 39 Abu-Hatseiras, 24, 33, 34, 35 Acuña, Rodolfo, 96 acupuncture, 177 Adams, Walter Randolph, xv, 141 Aguirre, Lauro, 93, 96 Akin, Rabibhadana, 58n3 Albert Memorial, London, 50–51 Alcoholics Anonymous ritual, 180 aliya, from the Maghreb, 37 Alonso, Ana M., 99, 102 altars: civic, 72; Dean, 133; Elvis, 156, 158; Evita, 70, 72, 73; Fidencio, 133; King Chulalongkorn, 54 alternative health therapeutic traditions, 178 Americans, religiosity, 11, 167 Amotat Baba Sali, 29–30 Anderson, Benedict, 104 Anderson, Jon, 85 Angel Times, 164–65 anticlericalism, in Mexico during the Cristero War, 109, 128 antihero, 75 anti-Peronists, 68 Anzaldúa, Gloria, 97 Aoyagi, Hiroshi, 22 Argentina, 176 Arias, Wil, 102, 103 Armas, Castillo, 66 aromatherapy, 177 Ashkelon, 27 Augustine, Saint, 144 Bainbridge, William Sims, 176, 177 Baraka, 24 barami (grace, virtue), 48, 49, 52–53 los barbudos, 81 Barthes, Roland, xvi, xvii, 77, 87 Bast, Bill, 141n1 Index Batista, Fulgencio, 80, 81, 83 Bauman, Zygmunt, 14 beati¤cation, 4, 20–21, 22n3, 67, 68, 69, 73 Beauvoir, Simone de, 84 beliefs: determine whether object of attention is a role model, charismatic leader, hero, icon, or saint, 183; felt, affective experience , 101 believers, 172–76 Bellah, Robert N., xvi, xx, 168n4 Belsunce, César García, 60 Ben-Ari, Eyal, 41 Ben-Baruchs, 24 Benton, Sarah, 16 Berne Convention, 84 Betancourt, Hermano Pedro, 171 Bilu, Yoram, xii–xiii, xvi, xvii, xviii, 174, 178, 180–81 Bin Banlerut, 51 biomedicine, 177, 178 Bloch, Marc, 63 bodily memory, 101 bodily preservation, 4 Boorstin, Daniel, 1 Bosca, Roberto, xiii, 172, 181, 182–83, 185n2 Bourdieu, Pierre, xvi, 101 Braudy, Leo, 134 bricoleur, 14 bruja (witch), 93 Brummelhuis, Han ten, 58n3 Buddha, the, 44 Buddhism, 44, 47, 48–49, 51 Buddhist hagiography, 44 burial sites, 178; Baba Sali, 26, 28, 29, 36, 40, 41n4; Carlos Gardel, 67; Che, 85–86; Elvis, 152, 161; Fidencio, 114, 132; Rabbi Shalom, 40 Bynum, Carolyn, 6, 7 Cage, Nicolas, 152 Caimari, Lila, 65, 70 cajitas, cajones, 8, 113, 114, 117, 131, 141. See also mediums (materias) Calles, Plutarco, 109–10, 112, 126, 135 Cámpora, Héctor, 63 Candlelight Vigil, Graceland, 152, 162 candles, 13 canonization, 4, 67; and Che, 88–89; and curing , 70; and Elvis, 153, 156; and Fidencio , 108, 117; by John Paul II, 19–21; political, 65, 69, 70; popular, xvii, 73; requested for Evita, 68–69 Cantoni, Federico, 66 Castro, Fidel, 78, 80, 81, 84 Catholic Church: clear boundaries between masculine and feminine representations, 18; cult of saints, 67–68; failure to modify tenets concerning women as priests, homosexuality , and clergy who sexually molest minors, 184; ¤nal control over the saintly narrative, 4; opposition to saint-making movements, 183; power of ritual to create community, 13; rejection of sainthood for Fidencio, 107; saintliness characterized by continuous dialogue with the divine, 64; Virgin Mary, 60 Catholic Reformation, 4 caudillos, 66 celebrities/stars, xvi, xviii; depend on effective narrators to tell their stories, 15; emergence of, 13; multivocality, 16; “professional ,” 148. See also sancti¤ed heroes/stars celebrity culture, rooted in sacred, 15–16 Celebrity (Rojek), xviii Cerro La Campana, 118 Certeau, Michel de, 165 CGT (General Confederation of Work), 68 charco, 114, 122, 132 charisma, xviii–xix; clan, 27, 127; commodi-¤cation of, 33; constructed, 41; constructivist approach to, 23; of Elvis, 156; of Evita, 60, 63; of Fidencio, 112; of Fidencio and Dean, 127, 128; fragility, 26, 32; as heredity, xix; historically situated, 41; institutionalization, xix; in the life histories of persons referred to as saints, xii; manufactured, 29, 32, 180–81; of of¤ce, xix; production of, 29–32, 34; propagated, 27; as a relationship, xix; routinization...
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