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Author : Carolyn Dean
Release : 1999
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 679/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Inka Bodies and the Body of Christ by : Carolyn Dean
Download or read book Inka Bodies and the Body of Christ written by Carolyn Dean. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analysis of how a religious festival dramatized the subaltern status of indigenous converts and how these converts used this to construct positive colonial identities.
Author : Maya Stanfield-Mazzi
Release : 2013-09-26
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 114/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Object and Apparition by : Maya Stanfield-Mazzi
Download or read book Object and Apparition written by Maya Stanfield-Mazzi. This book was released on 2013-09-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Christianity was imposed on Native peoples in the Andes, visual images played a fundamental role, yet few scholars have written about this significant aspect. Object and Apparition proposes that Christianity took root in the region only when both Spanish colonizers and native Andeans actively envisioned the principal deities of the new religion in two- and three-dimensional forms. The book explores principal works of art involved in this process, outlines early strategies for envisioning the Christian divine, and examines later, more effective approaches. Maya Stanfield-Mazzi demonstrates that among images of the divine there was constant interplay between concrete material objects and ephemeral visions or apparitions. Three-dimensional works of art, specifically large-scale statues of Christ and the Virgin Mary, were key to envisioning the Christian divine, the author contends. She presents in-depth analysis of three surviving statues: the Virgins of Pomata and Copacabana (Lake Titicaca region) and Christ of the Earthquakes from Cusco. Two-dimensional painted images of those statues emerged later. Such paintings depicted the miracle-working potential of specific statues and thus helped to spread the statues’ fame and attract devotees. “Statue paintings” that depict the statues enshrined on their altars also served the purpose of presenting images of local Andean divinities to believers outside church settings. Stanfield-Mazzi describes the unique features of Andean Catholicism while illustrating its connections to both Spanish and Andean cultural traditions. Based on thorough archival research combined with stunning visual analysis, Object and Apparition analyzes the range of artworks that gave visual form to Christianity in the Andes and ultimately caused the new religion to flourish.
Author : Jennifer Scheper Hughes
Release : 2023-07-11
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 93X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Church of the Dead by : Jennifer Scheper Hughes
Download or read book The Church of the Dead written by Jennifer Scheper Hughes. This book was released on 2023-07-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1576 a catastrophic epidemic devastated Indigenous Mexican communities and left the colonial church in ruins. With its horrific final symptom of hemorrhage from the nose, the unfamiliar disease, which the Nahua named cocoliztli, took almost two million lives. In the crisis and its immediate aftermath, Spanish missionaries and surviving pueblos de indios held radically different visions for the future of church in the Americas"--
Author : María Soledad Barbón
Release : 2019-10-31
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 479/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Colonial Loyalties by : María Soledad Barbón
Download or read book Colonial Loyalties written by María Soledad Barbón. This book was released on 2019-10-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonial Loyalties is an insightful study of how Lima’s residents engaged in civic festivities in the eighteenth century. Scholarship on festive culture in colonial Latin America has largely centered on “fiestas” as an ideal medium through which the colonizing Iberians naturalized their power. María Soledad Barbón contends that this perspective addresses only one side of the equation. Barbón relies on unprecedented archival research and a wide range of primary sources, including festival narratives, poetry, plays, speeches, and the official and unofficial records of Lima’s city council, to explain the level at which residents and institutions in Lima were invested in these rituals. Colonial Loyalties demonstrates how colonial festivals, in addition to reaffirming the power of the monarch and that of his viceroy, opened up opportunities for his subjects. Civic festivities were a means for the populace to strengthen and renegotiate their relationship with the Crown. They also provided the city’s inhabitants with a chance to voice their needs and to define their position within colonial society, reasserting their key position in the Spanish empire with respect to other competing cities in the Americas. Colonial Loyalties will appeal to scholars and students interested in Latin American literature, history, and culture, Hispanic studies, performance studies, and to general readers interested in festive culture and ritual.
Author : Karen O'Donnell
Release : 2019-01-01
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 241/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Broken Bodies by : Karen O'Donnell
Download or read book Broken Bodies written by Karen O'Donnell. This book was released on 2019-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Body of Christ is a traumatised body because it is constituted of traumatised bodies. This monograph explores the nature of that trauma and examines the implications of identifying the trauma of this body. Constructing new ways of thinking about the narratives at the heart of the Christian faith, 'Broken Bodies' offers a fresh perspective on Christian theology, in particular the Eucharist, and presents a call to love the body in all its guises. It offers new pathways for considering what it means to ‘be Christian’ and explores the impact that the experience of trauma has on Christian doctrine.
