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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455474603321

Autore

Tweed Thomas A

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1997

ISBN

1-280-45273-0

0-19-534449-9

0-585-32367-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

Religion in America series

Disciplina

282/.759381

Soggetti

Cuban American Catholics - Religious life - Florida - Miami

Cubans - Florida - Miami - Religion

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

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-215) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 DisplacementReligion 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; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

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