Who mended Pierre’s leg?
David A. Bell: Lourdes, 11 November 1999
Lourdes: Body and Spirit in the Secular Age
by Ruth Harris.
Allen Lane, 473 pp., £25, April 1999,0 7139 9186 0 Show More
by Ruth Harris.
Allen Lane, 473 pp., £25, April 1999,
“... the sort of scorn and vitriol that French freethinkers once directed at the Roman Catholic Church. Ruth Harris’s book exemplifies the promise of this approach rather than its excesses. Pasteur appears only incidentally in its pages, yet he lurks behind them, for the book’s great theme is precisely the confrontation between modern, scientific, secular ... ”