Mozarabs, Hispanics, and the Cross / Raúl Gómez-Ruiz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gómez-Ruiz, Raúl.

Series:

Studies in Latino/a Catholicism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mozarabs--Religious life.

Mozarabs.

Good Friday--Spain--Toledo.

Good Friday.

Holy Cross.

Processions, Religious--Catholic Church.

Religious life.

Toledo (Spain)--Religious life and customs.

Toledo (Spain).

Processions, Religious--Catholic Church--Spain--Toledo.

Processions, Religious.

Spain--Toledo.

Physical Description:

xvii, 252 pages ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Mozarabs, Hispanics, & the Cross

Place of Publication:

Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, [2007]

Summary:

Veneration of the cross plays a major role in hispanic popular religion. But for the Mozarabs, a Catholic community that traces its roots to the Visagoths and Hispano-Romans of seventh-century Spain, veneration of the cross--particularly the Lignum Crucis, a relic of the "True Cross"--has served to join devotion to Christ with a powerful symbol of religio-ethnic identity and servival in the face of persecution. The Mozarabs (the term may mean "Arabized") of Toledo maintained their Catholic identity through the period of Islamic rule. After the Christian reconquest of Spain and the imposition of uniform Roman liturgical rites, they clung tightly to their own Mozarabic Rite, which is still recognized and celebrated today.

Contents:

Rediscovering the Mozarabs of Toledo

The origins of the Mozarab community and its liturgy

Factors affecting the development of the Hispanic rite

The Hispano-Mozarabic rite and its evolution

The structure of the Hispano-Mozarabic Lent

The lignum Crucis and its ritual setting

The ritual use of the lignum Crucis on Good Friday

Christological controversy and orthodoxy

The Christology and soteriology of the texts

The spirituality of the Cross.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-246) and index.

ISBN:

9781570757334

157075733X

OCLC:

85019261