LEADER 04152nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910458351303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8147-6449-5 010 $a0-8147-9595-1 010 $a1-4416-2696-4 024 7 $a10.18574/9780814764497 035 $a(CKB)2560000000007114 035 $a(EBL)865769 035 $a(OCoLC)779828236 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000340707 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11268471 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000340707 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10387790 035 $a(PQKB)11237173 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001325819 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC865769 035 $a(OCoLC)503553757 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse10535 035 $a(DE-B1597)547228 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814764497 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL865769 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10333713 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000007114 100 $a20090331d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe mystery of the rosary$b[electronic resource] $eMarian devotion and the reinvention of Catholicism /$fNathan D. Mitchell 210 $aNew York $cNew York University Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (336 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8147-6343-X 311 $a0-8147-9591-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $t1 Reframing Reform -- $t2 Reframing Representation -- $t3 Reframing Ritual -- $t4 Reframing Religious Identity -- $t5 Reframing the Rosary -- $t6 Reading the Beads -- $tConclusion -- $tNotes -- $tIndex -- $tAbout the Author 330 $aEver since its appearance in Europe five centuries ago, the rosary has been a widespread, highly visible devotion among Roman Catholics. Its popularity has persisted despite centuries of often seismic social upheaval, cultural change, and institutional reform. In form, the rosary consists of a ritually repeated sequence of prayers accompanied by meditations on episodes in the lives of Christ and Mary. As a devotional object of round beads strung on cord or wire, the rosary has changed very little since its introduction centuries ago. Today, the rosary can be found on virtually every continent, and in the hands of hard-line traditionalists as well as progressive Catholics. It is beloved by popes, professors, protesters, commuters on their way to work, children learning their ?first prayers,? and homeless persons seeking shelter and safety.Why has this particular devotional object been so ubiquitous and resilient, especially in the face of Catholicism?s reinvention in the Early Modern, or ?Counter-Reformation,? Era? Nathan D. Mitchell argues in lyric prose that to understand the rosary?s adaptability, it is essential to consider the changes Catholicism itself began to experience in the aftermath of the Reformation.Unlike many other scholars of this period, Mitchell argues that after the Reformation Catholicism actually became more innovative and diversified rather than retrenched and monolithic. This innovation was especially evident in the sometimes ?subversive?; visual representations of sacred subjects, such as in the paintings of Caravaggio, and in new ways of perceiving the relation between Catholic devotion and the liturgy’s ritual symbols. The rosary was thus involved not only in how Catholics gave flesh to their faith, but in new ways of constructing their personal and collective identity. Ultimately, Mitchell employs the history of the rosary, and the concomitant devotion to the Virgin Mary with which it is associated, as a lens through which to better understand early modern Catholic history. 606 $aRosary 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aRosary. 676 $a242.74 700 $aMitchell$b Nathan$01049158 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458351303321 996 $aThe mystery of the rosary$92477931 997 $aUNINA