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Author: Timothy Matovina File Type: pdf Every Spanish-speaking country in Latin America and the Caribbean has its own national representation of the Virgin Mary who is credited with helping to spread Christianity. None of these is more prominent than the Virgin of Guadalupe, patroness of Mexico. According to tradition, the Virgin appeared to a man named Juan Diego on the Hill of Tepeyac, just outside Mexico City, four times in 1531. The local bishop doubted his claim until an image of the Virgin appeared on Juan Diegos cloak. That cloak is now among the most popular religious icons in the Americas, and the Virgin of Guadalupe is among the most widely known of Marian apparitions. Our Lady of Guadalupe is also the only Marian apparition tradition in the Americas- and indeed in all of Roman Catholicism- that has since inspired a sustained series of published theological analyses. In Theologies of Guadalupe, Timothy Matovina explores the way theologians have understood Our Lady of Guadalupe and sought to assess and foster her impact on the lives of her devotees since the seventeenth century. He examines core theological topics in the Guadalupe tradition, developed in response to major events in Mexican history conquest, attempts to Christianize native peoples, society-building, independence, and the demands for justice of marginalized groups. This book tells how, amidst the plentiful miraculous images of Christ, Mary, and the saints that dotted the sacred landscape of colonial New Spain, the Guadalupe cult rose above all others and was transformed from a local devotion into a regional, national, and then international phenomenon. Matovina traces the development of the theologies of Guadalupe from the colonial era to our own time, revealing how Christian ideas imported from Europe developed in dynamic interaction with the new contexts in which they took root. **Review Here, with heart, is a lucid and balanced theological-historical assessment of the Guadalupan tradition in Mexico and beyond across five centuries. Fully informed by modern scholarship, printed treatises and sermons, and personal experience, the tradition is understood as an evolving theology of learned writers and everyday devotees. The literature about Guadalupe is vast, but this is the first book of its kind, and it is a work of lasting importance.--William B. Taylor, author of Theater of a Thousand Wonders A History of Miraculous Images and Shrines in New Spain Matovina demonstrates that Guadalupe not only teaches about historical and contemporary Catholicism, she reveals the power of religious symbols. Theologies of Guadalupe examines theological reflections on Guadalupe across the centuries and the spread of her devotion throughout the Americas. This text explores these contextualized theologies in light of their history and social location. This is a significant contribution to Guadalupan studies, theology, and the history of Christianity in the Americas.--Michelle A. Gonzalez, Professor of Religious Studies, University of Miami Theologies of Guadalupe introduces the Mexican mother of God as we have not seen her before. Here, one of the leading scholars of Mexican-American Catholicism delves into the theological history of the Virgin of Guadalupe from the colonial priests and missionaries who coaxed early devotion into existence to feminist critics in the twentieth century. Historically grounded and theologically astute, Matovinas study will challenge, illuminate, and engage religious and secular readers alike for decades to come.--Jennifer Scheper Hughes, author of Biography of a Mexican Crucifix Lived Religion and Local Faith from the Conquest to the Present About the Author Timothy Matovina is professor and chair of the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. He works in the area of Theology and Culture, with specialization in U.S. Catholic and U.S. Latinoa theology and religion. His most recent book, Latino Catholicism Transformation in Americas Largest Church, won five book awards, including selection as a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2012.

Author: Peter Marren File Type: pdf Britain was a place of conflict in the Dark Ages, between the departure of the Romans and the Norman Conquest. Clashes of allegiance, competition for territory and resources, and intense rivalries among the warlords and kings gave rise to frequent outbreaks of fighting. This was the time of legendary military leaders, like Arthur, Alfred and Canute, and of literally hundreds of battles. In this fascinating book, Peter Marren investigates this confused era of warfare, looks for the reality behind the myths, and uses the techniques of modern scholarship to show how battles were fought in that brutal age, where they were fought, and why.

Author: David Roas File Type: pdf This book offers a definition of the fantastic that establishes it as a discourse in constant intertextual relation with the construct of reality. In establishing the definition of the fantastic, leading scholar David Roas selects four central concepts that allow him to chart a fairly clear map of this terrain reality, the impossible, fear, and language. These four concepts underscore the fundamental issues and problems that articulate any theoretical reflection on the fantastic its necessary relationship to an idea of the real, its limits, its emotional and psychological effects on the receiver and the transgression of language that is undertaken when attempting to express what is, by definition, inexpressible as it is beyond the realms of the conceivable. By examining such concepts, the book explores multiple perspectives that are clearly interrelated from literary and comparative theory to linguistics, via philosophy, science and cyberculture.