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- Title: Home Altars and the Virgin of Guadalupe in Quinceanera: Historical and Critical Perspectives (Report)
- Author : Journal of Religion and Popular Culture
- Release Date : January 22, 2009
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 249 KB
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[1] The Virgin of Guadalupe is integral to Mexican religion and culture and she plays a vital role in the lives of many Hispanics in the United States. (1) Guadalupan images are at the center of rituals and make it possible for devotees to be in touch with her and to invoke her intercession. Connections are made when her images are displayed on bodies and motor vehicles, in public spaces and churches, and in homes and yards. An industry of prints, sculptures, paintings, jewelry, and commercial products also provides a means to communicate with her. Guadalupan religion is an aesthetic and material-based enterprise involving the senses. [2] While many of her devotees adhere to structures such as nationalism, Roman Catholic hierarchy, and Christian scriptural traditions, their devotion also allows them to transcend institutional and national boundaries and to contest and modify orthodoxies. In such cases, their devotion is strategic, and one of the most palpable strategies consists in the construction and design of personal altars where a conversation with the Virgin ensues. (2) Devotees who construct them often confront political and religious elites, countering ideologies of assimilation. Shrine construction facilitates identity and agency, especially for the disenfranchised. (3) In their resistance, Hispanic devotees obtain and share an empowering collective memory and religious identity based on their historical mestizaje, or ethnic, cultural and religious cross-pollination. (4)