Religion as art : Guadalupe, Orishas, and Sufi / edited by Steven Loza.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Loza, Steven Joseph.

Ellis D. Williams, College 1865, Endowment Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts and religion--Congresses.

Arts and religion.

Guadalupe, Our Lady of--Congresses.

Guadalupe, Our Lady of.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xiii, 353 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2009.

Summary:

Steven Loza Explores How the iconic aspects of religion transcend mere symbolism with a collection of essays that examine the arts and their relationship to religious belief in three cultural areas of the world: the Mexican mestizo belief in the Virgin de Guadalupe, the West African Yoruba religion's base in a divination system of orishas, and the Sufi sect of Islam's musical/textual practices of devotional ecstasy to God.

The essays included here were originally presented at the 2004 international conference "Toward a Theory for Religion as Art: Guadalupe, Orishas, and Sufi," organized by the Arts of the Americas Institute at the University of New Mexico. While they reflect the interdisciplinary design and dialogue of the conference, the essays also reveal that many of the arts are conceptualized cross-culturally, ranging from visual art and poetry to music and dance, and offer comparative studies of their relationships to society, politics, and culture in general.

Contents:

Guadalupe and the historical interpretation of religion as art

Guadalupe and Los Remedios : how each gained its characteristic identity / by Francisco Miranda Godínez

Municipal art in early Guadalupan processions / by Martinus Cawley

Virgin Mary, Guadalupe, and migration : images from the mid-sixteenth and late-twentieth centuries / by Linda B. Hall

Our Lady of Guadalupe in historical perspective / by Stafford Poole

Visual and poetic art : history, aesthetics, and religion

From Merriam to Guadalupe : toward a theory for religion as art / by Steven Loza

"Maravilla Americana" : the Virgin of Guadalupe and the ideal spectator / by Ray Hernández-Durán

Editing the anthology Renaming ecstasy : Latino writings on the sacred / by Orlando Ricardo Menes

Musical relationships of faith and art in celebrating the Guadalupe tradition

The presence of Miguel Bernal Jiménez in the fiftieth anniversary of the coronation of the Virgin of Guadalupe / by Lorena Díaz Núñez

Musical witness to the beautiful Mestiza : art as experience of the sacred / by Sylvia Tan

Guadalupe and the Native American experience

Indigenous mysticism / by Maria Williams

Guadalupe : an indigenous mythic education perspective / by Gregory A. Cajete

The Pueblo Indian experience / by Joe Sando

Comparative concepts in the praxis of religion as art

The virgins of Guadalupe (Tonantzin) and La Caridad del Cobre (Ochún) : two Marian devotions as fluid symbols of collective and individual cultural identities / by Francisco J. Crespo

Guadalupe, Yemanjá, and the Orixás of Candomblé : an embodiment of religion, art, and music / by Clarence Bernard Henry

Afro-Cuban danced religious practices as everyday art : confluence in motion / by Teresa Marrero

Observing the unobservable / by Charles E. Moore

Path to the divine : music in the Sufi experience / by Ali Jihad Racy

Yoruba religious arts, secularization, and modern music theater / by Akin Euba

The spirit of Guadalupe : immigration, human rights, and spiritual conflict

Tlecuauhtlazupeuth : belief and resonance : El Contradecir de Guadalupe-Tonantzin / by Juan Gómez-Quiñones

Can Hispanic immigration change fundamental attitudes in United States foreign policy? / by Luis Antonio Payan

Religion and art : the Santa Fe art controversy about the imprint of Our Lady of Guadalupe / by Janice Schuetz

Unbraiding stories about law, sexuality, and morality / by Margaret Montoya

Conclusion : The mystical roots of American political democracy : social justice and religious belief in a newer world / by Timothy A. Canova.

Notes:

"The essays were originally presented on May 12-14, 2004, at the international conference Towards a theory for religion as art : Guadalupe, Orishas, and Sufi"--P. 2.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Ellis D. Williams, College 1865, Endowment Fund.

ISBN:

9780826345707

0826345700

OCLC:

298513290

Publisher Number:

99934765456