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Guadalupe and her faithful : Latino Catholics in San Antonio, from colonial origins to the present / Timothy Matovina.

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Van Pelt Library BT660.G8 M35 2005
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Matovina, Timothy, 1955-
Series:
Lived religions
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
San Fernando Cathedral (San Antonio, Tex.).
Guadalupe, Our Lady of--Cult--Texas--San Antonio--History.
Guadalupe, Our Lady of.
Hispanic American Catholics--Religious life--Texas--San Antonio--History.
Hispanic American Catholics.
San Fernando Cathedral (San Antonio, Tex.)--History.
History.
Hispanic American Catholics--Religious life.
Guadalupe, Our Lady of--Cult.
San Antonio (Tex.)--Religious life and customs.
San Antonio (Tex.).
Texas--San Antonio.
Physical Description:
xv, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Place of Publication:
Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
Summary:
Our Lady of Guadalupe is the most revered religious figure in Mexican Catholicism. Devotion to Guadalupe among Mexicans and Mexican Americans has evolved for nearly five centuries into a deeply rooted, multifaceted tradition. Here, religion scholar Timothy Matovina offers a thorough study of this tradition as it has been lived out by the parishioners of San Fernando Cathedral in San Antonio, Texas. He shows how the devotion to Guadalupe sustained this congregation through times of political turmoil, war and peace, and ecclesiastical and social changes over San Antonio's long history from an agricultural settlement on the northern edge of New Spain to a dynamic U.S. metropolis.
Engaging recent scholarly analysis of ritual studies, lived religion, Latino theology and history, transnationalism, and ethnicity, Guadalupe and Her Faithful shows how religious traditions shape and are shaped by a faith community's shifting contexts and power dynamics. This fascinating account reveals the potential force-and the potential limitations-of devotion in people's lives and religious imagination.
Contents:
Introduction : an evolving tradition
"Nuestra Madre Querida"
Patroness of the Frontera, 1731-1836
Defender of Dignidad, 1836-1900
Companion in El Exilio, 1900-1940
Celestial Mestiza, 1940-2003
Epilogue : the future of Guadalupan devotion.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-219) and index.
ISBN:
0801879590
080188229X
OCLC:
57893892

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