Frank Graziano

Miraculous Images and Votive Offerings in Mexico

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP US
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 603g
• ISBN-13: 9780199790852
• ISBN-10: 019979085X
• Artikelnr.: 42967688

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgmets
Preface
Señor del Rayo
MIRACULOUS IMAGES
Ambiguity
Attributes
Faith, Presence, and Power
Projective Animation
Poetic Faith
Simulacra
Otatitlán
PETITIONARY DEVOTION
Votive Exchange
Reciprocity
The Miracle of Everyday Life
Juquila
SEEING THROUGH FAITH
Faith as a Cognitive Filter
Miracle Attribution
Medical Miracles
Marco
COLLABORATIONS
Sacred Power and Human Agency
Disclosure
Proximity and Contact
Juramentos
Remedios
VOTIVE OFFERINGS
Taxonomy
As Befits a House of God
The Strange Life of Objects
Presence
Votive Texts
Retablos
Chalma
RESEARCH SITES
Index
Notes