NEW AGE IN LATIN AMERICA: POPULAR VARIATIONS AND ETHNIC APPROPRIATIONS (RELIGION IN THE AMERICAS, 16)
Editors: Angela De La Torre Castellanos & 2 more
Publisher: Brill
ISBN-13: 9789004316331
This book is at the crossroads where a New Age sensibility, advancing like an ecumen of worldwide spirituality without national, cultural, or ecclesiastical frontiers, meets Latin America’s syncretic religions, practiced by people with African or indigenous roots or developed from the tradition of popular Catholicism. The Syncretic character of the two sensibilities makes both the New Age and popular religion behave like two, syncretizing and syncreticizable matrices of meaning. This book provides a framework for a new field of study in anthropology. What new ways of signifying living and experiencing religion is the New Age generating in Latin America?
MODERNITY OF RELIGIOSITIES AND BELIEFS: A NEW PATH IN LATIN AMERICA FROM THE NINETEENTH TO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Editor: Pablo Alberto Baisotti & 15 more
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN-13: 9781793654885
Modernity of Religiosities and Beliefs: A New Path in Latin America: From the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century synthesizes new research on various phenomena related to religions and beliefs in Latin America. The contributors provide comprehensive analytical interpretations of Latin American spheres of religious ideas and worldviews and show that they are a key element to understanding the history of the region. Overall, this book gives an account of the whole spectrum of religious phenomena in Latin American societies, providing a “global” interpretation that will contribute to the study of political, economic, and cultural modernities in Latin America.
THE HISTORY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN LATIN AMERICA: FROM CONQUEST TO REVOLUTION AND BEYOND
Author: John Frederick Schwaller
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN-13: 9780814740033
One cannot understand Latin America without understanding the history of the Catholic Church in the region. Catholicism has been predominant in Latin America and it has played a definitive role in its development. It helped to spur the conquest of the New World with its emphasis on missions to the indigenous peoples, controlled many aspects of the colonial economy, and played key roles in the struggles for Independence. This volume offers a concise yet far-reaching synthesis of this institution’s role from the earliest contact between the Spanish and native tribes until the modern day.
IN SEARCH OF CHRIST IN LATIN AMERICA: FROM COLONIAL IMAGE TO LIBERATING SAVIOR
Author: Samuel Escobar & René Padilla
Publisher: IVP Academic
ISBN-13: 9780830851867
Noted theologian Samuel Escobar offers a magisterial survey and study of Christology in Latin America. Starting with the first Spanish influence and moving through popular religiosity and liberationist themes in Catholic and Protestant thought of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, In Search of Christ in Latin America culminates in an important description of the work of the Latin American Theological Fraternity (FTL). Escobar chronologically traces the journey of Latin American Christology and describes the milestones along the way toward a rich understanding of the spiritual reality and powerful message of Jesus.
HOLY FAMILY AS PROTOTYPE OF THE CIVILIZATION OF LOVE, THE; - IMAGES FROM THE VICEREGAL AMERICAS
Author: Chorpenning, Joseph F.
Publisher: Saint Joseph’s University Press
ISBN-13: 9780916101213
In 1996, Saint Joseph’s University mounted the exhibition “The Holy Family as Prototype of the Civilization of Love: Images from the Viceregal Americas,” which displayed paintings from the Spanish Colonial period, books and engravings from 17th- and 18th-century Europe, and lithographs and devotional paintings from 19th-century Mexico and New Mexico. This volume contains essays on the historical development of the Holy Family devotion from the late Middle Ages to the late 20th century, the subject of the Holy Family in Western art, and the encounter of European and Inca cultures observable in images of the Holy Family in Andean Viceregal art.
PATRON SAINT OF THE NEW WORLD; - SPANISH AMERICAN COLONIAL IMAGES OF ST. JOSEPH
Author: Joseph F Chorpenning
Publisher: Saint Joseph’s University Press
ISBN-13: 9780916101114
Devotion to St. Joseph was firmly established in the New World within the first decade of the conquest of Mexico. In 1555, Joseph was proclaimed patron of the Viceroyalty of New Spain (present-day Mexico, Central America, and the Philippines). In 1524, New France (Canada) chose Joseph as its patron. St. Joseph is indeed the “Patron Saint of the New World.” Some of the works exhibited portray events in the life of St. Joseph. Others depict variations on the image of St. Joseph with the Christ Child. These art works are from Mexico, Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador.
ART OF PAINTING IN COLONIAL QUITO, THE; - EL ARTE DE LA PINTURA EN QUITO COLONIAL
Editors: Suzanne L. Stratton-Pruitt
Publisher: Saint Joseph’s University Press
ISBN-13: 978091601695
This bilingual edition focuses on the heritage of painting in colonial Quito with new research and new photography of unpublished paintings.
Editor Suzanne L. Stratton-Pruitt is a historian of the art of Spain and Spanish America. Her publications include “The Arts in Latin America 1492-1820,” co-edited with Joseph J. Rishel (Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2006), “The Virgin, Saints and Angels: South American Paintings 1600-1825 in the Thoma Collection” (Cantor Arts Center/Skira, 2006), as well as more recent essays in anthologies. Organizer Judy de Bustamante is a widely published photographer who has lived in Quito since 1963.
MEXICAN DEVOTIONAL RETABLOS FROM THE PETERS COLLECTION
Author: Joseph F Chorpenning
Publisher: Saint Joseph’s University Press
ISBN-13: 9780916101206
The Peters Collection is a permanent exhibition of forty-four Mexican devotional retablos (oil paintings on tin), two 19th-century Mexican oil-on-canvas paintings, and two Philippine bultos (statues). In 1993, this remarkable collection was presented to Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia by Joseph and Ruth Peters, longtime retablo collectors and connoisseurs. This volume presents scholarly research on heretofore neglected artistic and literary sources for many devotional retablo subjects, and commentary on each piece of the collection that offers a more detailed discussion of the iconography of devotional retablo subjects than is often found in the standard works on this art form.
