Our Lady of the exile : diasporic religion at a Cuban Catholic shrine in Miami / Thomas A. Tweed.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tweed, Thomas A., author.

Series:

Religion in America series.

Oxford scholarship online.

Religion in America series

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ermita de la Caridad (Miami, Fla.).

Cuban American Catholics--Religious life--Florida--Miami.

Cuban American Catholics.

Cubans--Florida--Miami--Religion.

Cubans.

Caridad de Cartagena, Virgen de la--Cult--Florida--Miami.

Caridad de Cartagena, Virgen de la.

Local Subjects:

Ermita de la Caridad (Miami, Fla.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 224 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This study of Cuban-American popular Catholicism, focuses on the shrine of Our Lady of Charity in Miami, which is the sacred centre of the Cuban community in exile. Tweed uses historical and ethnographic methods to discover why the shrine attained so much importance and what it says about larger issues of religion, identity and place.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; Sources and Methods; Argument and Organization; I: DEVOTION TO OUR LADY OF CHARITY; 1 The Virgin's Exile: The Cuban Patroness and the Diaspora in Miami; II: CONTESTED MEANINGS AT THE SHRINE; 2 Santería, Catholicism, and Evangelization: Struggles for Religious Identity; 3 Diverse Devotees, Plural Practices, and Multiple Meanings; III: SHARED MEANINGS AT THE SHRINE; 4 Nationalism, Religion, and Diasporic Identity: An Interpretive Framework; 5 Religious Artifacts and Diasporic Identity; 6 Religious Rituals and Diasporic Identity

Postscript: Religion, Place, and Displacement; Religion and Place in the Americas: Toward Other Narratives; Religion and Displacement: Toward a Theory of Diasporic Religion; Appendix A: Chronology; Appendix B: English-Language Version of the Structured Interview Questions; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1997.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-028301-7

0-19-774035-9

1-280-45273-0

0-19-534449-9

0-585-32367-4

OCLC:

476010679