Shrines and miraculous images

Taylor, William B.

Shrines and miraculous images religious life in Mexico before the Reforma / [electronic resource] : William B. Taylor. - Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2010. - 1 online resource (xv, 288 p.) : ill., maps, port. - Religions of the Americas series . - Religions of the Americas series. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-280) and index.

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.

9780826348555 (electronic bk.) 0826348556 (electronic bk.)


Catholic Church--History.--Mexico


Christian shrines--History.--Mexico
RELIGION / Holidays / Christian


Mexico--Religious life and customs.


Electronic books.

BX2320.5.M6 / T38 2010eb

263/.04272