Irish Pilgrimage: Holy Wells and Popular Catholic Devotion. From: Church History | Date: March 1, 2001| Author: Gribben, Crawford | COPYRIGHT 2001 American Society of Church History. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Irish Pilgrimage: Holy Wells and Popular Catholic Devotion. By Michael P. Carroll. Baltimore, Md.: John Hopkins University Press, 1999. x + 226 pp. $38.00 cloth.

The study of popular religion, although a growth area in recent historiography, conceals the presence of many lacunae--among them sustained study of the devotional exercises of popular Irish Catholicism. Michael Carroll, a sociologist at the University of Western Ontario, is already well known for his contributi...

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