Theater of a thousand wonders : a history of miraculous images and shrines in New Spain
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Theater of a thousand wonders : a history of miraculous images and shrines in New Spain
(Cambridge Latin American studies, [103])
Cambridge University Press, 2016
- : hardback
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The great many shrines of New Spain have become long-lived sites of shared devotion and contestation across social groups. They have provided a lasting sense of enchantment, of divine immanence in the present, and a hunger for epiphanies in daily life. This is a story of consolidation and growth during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, rather than one of rise and decline in the face of early stages of modernization. Based on research in a wide array of manuscript and printed primary sources, and informed by recent scholarship in art history, religious studies, anthropology, and history, this is the first comprehensive study of shrines and miraculous images in any part of early modern Latin America.
Table of Contents
- Part I. Bearings: Historical Patterns and Places of Image Shrines: 1. Formative developments, 1520s-1720s
- 2. Growth, other changes, and continuities in the late colonial period
- 3. Miraculous images of Christ and the Virgin Mary
- 4. Advocations of the Virgin Mary in the colonial period
- Part II. Soundings: Divine Presence, Place, and the Power of Things: 5. Making miracles
- 6. Relics, images, and other numinous things
- 7. Religious prints and their uses
- 8. Placing the cross in colonial Mexico
- 9. Pilgrims, processions, and Romerias
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1. A checklist of colonial image shrines
- Appendix 2. When shrines began
- Appendix 3. Other saints, a brief appraisal
- Index.
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