Theater of a Thousand Wonders : A History of Miraculous Images and Shrines in New Spain
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Cambridge Latin American Studies
ISBN-10
1107102677
ISBN-13
9781107102675
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 3rd, 2016
Print length
738 Pages
Weight
12 grams
Dimensions
23.50 x 15.80 x 4.80 cms
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A sweeping study of the images and shrines of New Spain, based on extensive research into little-known archival and early printed sources and giving a unique perspective of material culture, pilgrimage, and the place of miracles and relics in the story of Catholicism becoming an American religion.
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.
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