Miraculous Images and Votive Offerings in Mexico - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Miraculous Images and Votive Offerings in Mexico write by Frank Graziano. This book was released on 2016. Miraculous Images and Votive Offerings in Mexico available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mexican statues and paintings like the Virgen de Guadalupe and the Se or de Chalma are endowed with sacred presence and the power to perform miracles. Millions of devotees visit their shrines to request miracles for health, employment, children, and countless everyday matters. When miracles are granted, devotees reciprocate with votive offerings. Collages, photographs, documents, texts, milagritos, hair and braids, clothing, retablos, and various representative objects cover walls at many shrines. Miraculous Images and Votive Offerings in Mexico explores such petitionary devotion in depth through extensive fieldwork supported by research in a vast body of interdisciplinary scholarship. The study's principal themes include sacred power and human agency, reification, projective animation, faith as a cognitive filter, sacred power transfer, social and narrative construction, positive framing, collaborative and deferred control, vows (juramentos), and miracle attribution. The book is written in two alternating voices, one interpretive to provide an understanding of miracles, miraculous images, and votive offerings, and the other narrative to illustrate the interpretive chapters and to bring the reader closer to experiences at the shrines. Among the many miraculous images treated in the book are the Cristo Negro de Otatitl n, Ni o del Cacahuatito, Se or de Chalma, Se or de la Misericordia (Tepatitl n), Se or del Rayo, Se or de las Tres Ca das (Teotilalpam), Virgen de los Dolores de Soriano, Virgen de Guadalupe, Virgen del Pueblito, Virgen de Juquila, Virgen de los Remedios, Virgen de San Juan de los Lagos, Virgen de Talpa, Virgen de Tonatico, and Virgen de Zapopan.
Miraculous Images and Votive Offerings in Mexico
Miraculous Images and Votive Offerings in Mexico - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Miraculous Images and Votive Offerings in Mexico write by Frank Graziano. This book was released on 2015. Miraculous Images and Votive Offerings in Mexico available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Miraculous Images and Votive Offerings in Mexico' offers an exploration of miracles, petitionary devotion, and ex votos, based on extensive fieldwork in Guanajuato, Jalisco, Queretaro, San Luis Potosí, and Zacatecas.
Shrines and Miraculous Images
Shrines and Miraculous Images - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shrines and Miraculous Images write by William B. Taylor. This book was released on 2019-02-15. Shrines and Miraculous Images available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The vast literature on Our Lady of Guadalupe dominates the study of shrines and religious practices in Mexico. But there is much more to the story of shrines and images in Mexico’s religious history than Guadalupe and Marian devotion. In this book a distinguished historian brings together his new and recent essays on 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. Each of these essays touches on methodological and conceptual matters that open out to processes and paradoxes of change and continuity, exposing the symbolic complexity behind the material representations.
Art and Miracle in Renaissance Tuscany
Art and Miracle in Renaissance Tuscany - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Art and Miracle in Renaissance Tuscany write by Robert Maniura. This book was released on 2018-10-18. Art and Miracle in Renaissance Tuscany available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Miraculous images are the focus for an exploration of art and devotion in Renaissance Italy.
La Santa Muerte in Mexico
La Santa Muerte in Mexico - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook La Santa Muerte in Mexico write by Wil G. Pansters. This book was released on 2019-09-01. La Santa Muerte in Mexico available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For over a decade the cult of La Santa Muerte has grown rapidly in Mexico and the United States. Thousands of people—ranging from drug runners and mothers to cabdrivers, soldiers, police, and prison inmates—invoke the protection of La Santa Muerte. Devotees seek her protection through practicing popular vows, attending public rosaries and masses at street altars, and constructing and maintaining home altars. This book examines La Santa Muerte’s role in people’s daily lives and explores how popular religious practices of worship and devotion developed around a figure often associated with illicit activities. She represents life with the possibility of respite but without ultimate redemption, and she speaks to the complexities of lives lived at the fringes of violence, insecurity, impunity, and economic hardship. The essays collected here move beyond the visually arresting sight of La Santa Muerte as a tattoo or figurine, suggesting that she represents a major movement in Mexico.
