American Patroness: Marian Shrines and the Making of Us Catholicism - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 1531504884 ISBN 13 : 9781531504885

Editeur : Fordham University Press, 2024

Synopsis

A vital collection of interdisciplinary essays that illuminates the significance of Marian shrines and promises to teach scholars how to "read" them for decades to come.

American Patroness: Marian Shrines and the Making of US Catholicism is a collection of twelve essays that examine the historical and contemporary roles of Marian shrines in US Catholicism. The essays in this collection use historical, ethnographic, and comparative methods to explore how Catholics have used Marian devotion to make an imprint on the physical and religious landscape of the United States. Using the dynamic malleability of Marian shrines as a starting place for studying US Catholicism, each chapter reconsiders the American religious landscape from the perspective of a single shrine to Mary and asks: What does this shrine reveal about US Catholicism and about American religion?

Each of the contributors in American Patroness examines why and how Marian shrines persist in the twenty-first century and subsequently uses that examination to re-read contemporary US Catholicism. Because shrines are not neutral spaces--they reflect and shape the elastic yet strict boundaries of what counts as Catholic identity, and who controls prayer practices--the studies in this collection also shed light on the contested dynamics of these holy sites. American Patroness demonstrates that Marian shrines continue to be places where an American Catholic identity is continuously worked on, negotiations about power occur, and Marian relationships are fostered and nurtured in spaces that are simultaneously public and intimate.

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À propos des auteurs

Katherine Dugan is associate professor of religious studies at Springfield College (MA). She is the author of Millennial Missionaries: How a Group of Young Catholics is Making Catholicism Cool (Oxford, 2019) and is currently working on an ethnographic study of Catholics who practice Natural Family Planning.

Karen E. Park is Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at St. Norbert College, in De Pere, Wisconsin. She has written widely on Marian devotion and shrines and American religion and popular culture. She holds a PhD from the Divinity School of the University of Chicago.

Lloyd Barba is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion and core faculty in Latinx and Latin American Studies at Amherst College. His book, Sowing the Sacred: Mexican Pentecostal Farmworkers in California (Oxford University Press, 2022), uses photographs and oral histories of early and mid-century Mexican Pentecostal farmworkers to render counter-narratives of their religious and cultural productions.

James S. Bielo is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Northwestern University. He is the author of five books, most recently, Materializing the Bible: Scripture, Sensation, Place (Bloomsbury, 2021).

David J. Endres, a priest of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, is Academic Dean and Professor of Church History and Historical Theology at Mount St. Mary's Seminary and School of Theology in Cincinnati. In 2018, he was the preacher for the National Shrine of Our Lady of Consolation's largest annual event, the novena culminating in the solemnity of the Assumption of Mary.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fordham University Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1531504884
• ISBN 13: 9781531504885
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Éditeur: Dugan Katherine, Park Karen E.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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