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Holy Organ or Unholy Idol?: The Sacred Heart in the Art, Religion, and Politics of New Spain

by Lauren G. Kilroy-Ewbank

  • Hardback
  • 340 pages
  • Publisher: Brill
  • 15.8 x 23.9 x 2.3 cm

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For art historians and scholars of faith history.

Explains the rise of Sacred Heart imagery in Mexico.

Gain a deeper sense of how art fuels your devotion.

An insightful look at the devotion to the Sacred Heart in New Spain and its role in religious discourse.

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Holy Organ or Unholy Idol? focuses on the significance of the cult of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and its accompanying imagery in eighteenth-century New Spain. Lauren G. Kilroy-Ewbank considers paintings, prints, devotional texts, and archival sources within the Mexican context alongside issues and debates occurring in Europe to situate the New Spanish cult within local and global developments. She examines the iconography of these religious images and frames them within broader socio-political and religious discourses related to the Eucharist, the sun, the Jesuits, scientific and anatomical ideas, and mysticism. Images of the Heart helped to champion the cult's validity as it was attacked by religious reformers.
Holy Organ or Unholy Idol?: The Sacred Heart in the Art, Religion, and Politics of New Spain and Emotions, Art, and Christianity in the Transatlantic World, 1450-1800
Emotions, Art, and Christianity in the Transatlantic World, 1450-1800Holy Organ or Unholy Idol?: The Sacred Heart in the Art, Religion, and Politics of New Spain

  • Title

    Holy Organ or Unholy Idol?: The Sacred Heart in the Art, Religion, and Politics of New Spain

  • Author

    Lauren G. Kilroy-Ewbank

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Brill

  • Published

    December 2018

  • Weight

    800g

  • Page Count

    340

  • Dimensions

    15.8 x 23.9 x 2.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9789004384644

  • ISBN-10

    9004384642

  • Eden Code

    5610215