Jennifer Scheper Hughes

Biography of a Mexican Crucifix

Lived Religion and Local Faith from the Conquest to the Present

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Hughes uses the long history of popular devotions to a famous crucifix to introduce and explore the most salient religious issues in Mexican history: conquest and mission to the Indians; the birth of an indigenous, syncretic Christianity; the rise of a baroque spirituality and aesthetic; the declining influence of the Catholic religious orders; the sometimes violent processes of independence, nationalization, and secularization; the utopian vision and practice ofliberation theology and its institutional dismantling; and finally, the rise of charismatic Catholicism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780195367072
• ISBN-10: 0195367073
• Artikelnr.: 27387428

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Scheper Hughes is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at University of California, Riverside.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
1.: Introduction: The Iconography of Suffering
2.: "Christ Appeared": Material Religion and the Conquest of Mexico
3.: Performance and Penance: The Cristo and Christian Evangelization
4.: The Cristo Comes to Life: Lived Religion in Colonial Mexico City
5.: Repatriation: Christ Comes Again to Totolapan
6.: The Red Bishop, the Cristo, and the Aesthetics of Liberation
7.: The Gentle Devotions of a Rebellious People: The Phenomenology of a Santo
8.: : Beauty and Devotion: Fiesta at the Dawn of a New Millennium
9.: Conclusions: The Two Souls of Christ Notes
Bibliography
Index