Shrines and Miraculous Images: Religious Life in Mexico Before the Reforma (Religions of the Americas Series)

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The vast literature on Our Lady of Guadalupe dominates the study of shrines and spiritual practices in Mexico. But there may be a lot more to the story of shrines and images in Mexico’s religious history than Guadalupe and Marian devotion. On this book, a distinguished historian brings together his new and latest essays on in the past unstudied or reconsidered places, themes, patterns, and episodes in Mexican religious history all the way through the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries.

William Taylor explores the usage 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. Every of these essays touches on methodological and conceptual matters that open out to processes and paradoxes of change and continuity, exposing the symbolic complexity at the back of the material representations.

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