Performing Piety (eBook)

Making Space Sacred with the Virgin of Guadalupe

Elaine A. Pena (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2011
234 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-94880-8 (ISBN)

Infos

The Virgin of Guadalupe, though quintessentially Mexican, inspires devotion throughout the Americas and around the world. This study sheds new light on the long-standing transnational dimensions of Guadalupan worship by examining the production of sacred space in three disparate but interconnected locations-at the sacred space known as Tepeyac in Mexico City, at its replica in Des Plaines, Illinois, and at a sidewalk shrine constructed by Mexican nationals in Chicago. Weaving together rich on-the-ground observations with insights drawn from performance studies, Elaine A. Pena demonstrates how devotees' rituals-pilgrimage, prayers, and festivals-develop, sustain, and legitimize these sacred spaces. Interdisciplinary in scope, Performing Piety paints a nuanced picture of the lived experience of Guadalupan devotion in which different forms of knowing, socio-economic and political coping tactics, conceptions of history, and faith-based traditions circulate within and between sacred spaces.

Inhalt

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Locating Transnational Devotion

Part I. BUILDING
1. Virgen de los Migrantes: Transposing Sacred Space in a Chicago Suburb

Part II. WALKING
2. "¡Qué risa me da!" (Oh, how it makes me laugh!)
3. Feeling History: Calambres, Ampoyas y Sed (Muscle Spasms, Blisters, and Thirst)

Part III. CONQUERING
4. Devotion in the City: Building Sacred Space on Chicago’s Far North Side

Conclusion: Making Space Sacred

Appendix: Pilgrimage Repertoire
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.6.2011
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Liturgik / Homiletik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Bible • Catholic Church • Catholicism • Chicago • Chicano • Christianity • Cultural Anthropology • des plaines • devotional labor • Doctrine • Faith • Festivals • Gender • Hispanic • Hispanic American • Immigration • Latino • Latinx • mexican nationals • Mexico City • Nonfiction • Performance • piety • Pilgrimage • Popular Religion • Prayers • Religion • Religious • religious performance • Religious tradition • sacred spaces • Saints • shrine • sidewalk shrine • Spirituality • tepeyac • Theology • urban planning • Virgin of Guadalupe • Worship
• ISBN-10: 0-520-94880-7 / 0520948807
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-94880-8 / 9780520948808