[PDF.67kt] Biography of a Mexican Crucifix: Lived Religion and Local Faith from the Conquest to the Present

Biography of a Mexican Crucifix: Lived Religion and Local Faith from the Conquest to the Present

[PDF.tl59] Biography of a Mexican Crucifix: Lived Religion and Local Faith from the Conquest to the Present

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 | #1421215 in Books |  2010-01-27 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  6.10 x.80 x9.10l,1.00 | File type: PDF | 328 pages

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||1 of 13 people found the following review helpful.| irony|By history|What a wonderful idea for a monograph...and how ironic that a work on *popular* religion is so densely written as to be unreadable.| ||"Hughes deftly constructs a convincing and innovative religious history of Mexico told from the perspective of the devotional life of the townspeople...The book is especially great when discussing the aesthetics and emotions associated with Mexican Catholic d

In 1543, in a small village in Mexico, a group of missionary friars received from a mysterious Indian messenger an unusual carved image of Christ crucified. The friars declared it the most poignantly beautiful depiction of Christ's suffering they had ever seen. Known as the Cristo Aparecido (the "Christ Appeared"), it quickly became one of the most celebrated religious images in colonial Mexico. Today, the Cristo Aparecido is among the oldest New World crucifixes and is ...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Biography of a Mexican Crucifix: Lived Religion and Local Faith from the Conquest to the Present   |  Jennifer Scheper Hughes. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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