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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457402003321

Autore

Taylor William B

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albuquerque, : University of New Mexico Press, 2010

ISBN

1-283-63692-1

0-8263-4855-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (306 p.)

Collana

Religions of the Americas series

Disciplina

263/.04272

Soggetti

Christian shrines - Mexico - History

Electronic books.

Mexico Religious life and customs

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. 207-280) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.