Biography of a mexican crucifix: lived religion and local faith from the conquest to the present

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. INDICE: 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 ComesAgain to Totolapan; 6.: The Red Bishop, the Cristo, and the Aesthetics of Liberation; 7.: The Gentle Devotions of a Rebellious People: The Phenomenology ofa Santo; 8.: : Beauty and Devotion: Fiesta at the Dawn of a New Millennium; 9.: Conclusions: The Two Souls of Christ Notes; Bibliography; Index

• ISBN: 978-0-19-536707-2
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 326
• Fecha Publicación: 18/02/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés