Shrines and miraculous images : religious life in Mexico before the Reforma / William B. Taylor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taylor, William B.

Series:

Religions of the Americas series.

Religions of the Americas series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian shrines--Mexico--History.

Christian shrines.

Mexico--Religious life and customs.

Mexico.

Catholic Church--Mexico--History.

Catholic Church.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

William Taylor explores the use of local and regional shrines, and devotion to images of Christ and Mary, including Our Lady of Guadalupe, to get to the heart of the politics and practices of faith in Mexico before the Reforma.

This book considers previously unstudied or reconsidered places, themes, patterns, and episodes in Mexican religious history during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. William Taylor explores the use of local and regional shrines as well as devotion to images of Christ and Mary, including Our Lady of Guadalupe, to get to the heart of the politics and practices of faith in Mexico before the Reforma.

Contents:

Images and immanence in colonial Mexico

Two shrines of the Cristo Renovado : religion and peasant politics

Mexico's Virgin of Guadalupe in the seventeenth century : hagiography and beyond

Places of Our Lady of Guadalupe in eighteenth-century Mexico

Guadalupe, remedios, and cultural politics of the independence period

Shrines and marvels in the wake of Mexican independence.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-280) and index.

ISBN:

9781283636926

1283636921

9780826348555

0826348556

OCLC:

817819457