Shrines and miraculous images : religious life in Mexico before the Reforma / William B. Taylor.

William Taylor explores the use of local and regional shrines, and 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.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Taylor, William B.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2010.
Series:Religions of the Americas series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Images and immanence in colonial Mexico
  • Two shrines of the Cristo Renovado : religion and peasant politics
  • Mexico's Virgin of Guadalupe in the seventeenth century : hagiography and beyond
  • Places of Our Lady of Guadalupe in eighteenth-century Mexico
  • Guadalupe, remedios, and cultural politics of the independence period
  • Shrines and marvels in the wake of Mexican independence.