American Patroness
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American Patroness

Marian Shrines and the Making of US Catholicism

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

American Patroness

Marian Shrines and the Making of US Catholicism

About this book

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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Information

Publisher
Fordham University Press
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9781531504885
9781531504878
eBook ISBN
9781531504892
Edition
1
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Religious Architecture

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. Part I: Mapping Marian Places
  8. Part II: Shifting Marian Meanings
  9. Part III: Devotional Creativity at Marian Shrines
  10. Acknowledgments
  11. Bibliography
  12. List of Contributors
  13. Index

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