Miraculous Images and Votive Offerings in Mexico

Zusatztext Frank Graziano carefully analyzes, in a correctly thematic manner, popular devotion and the miraculous power of Catholic imagery in Mexico...and he produces a taxonomy of the various existing votive offerings. Informationen zum Autor Frank Graziano is John D. MacArthur Professor of Hispanic Studies at Connecticut College. His previous books include The Millennial New World, Wounds of Love: The Mystical Marriage of St. Rose of Lima, and Cultures of Devotion: Folk Saints of Spanish America. Klappentext Miraculous Images and Votive Offerings in Mexico offers an exploration of miracles, petitionary devotion, and ex votos, based on extensive fieldwork in Guanajuato, Jalisco, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, and Zacatecas. Zusammenfassung Miraculous Images and Votive Offerings in Mexico offers an exploration of miracles, petitionary devotion, and ex votos, based on extensive fieldwork in Guanajuato, Jalisco, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, and Zacatecas.

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• Autori: Frank Graziano, Frank (John D. Macarthur Professor of Hi Graziano, Graziano Frank
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 21.01.2016
• EAN: 9780199790869
• ISBN: 978-0-19-979086-9
• Pagine: 352
• Categorie: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Religione: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Religione / teologia > Cristianesimo; Mexico, RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, RELIGION / Christianity / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico, RELIGION / Christian Rituals & Practice / General, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Christianity, History of Religion, Social and cultural anthropology, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church, Christian worship, rites & ceremonies, Worship, rites, ceremonies and rituals