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Performing Piety

Making Space Sacred with the Virgin of Guadalupe

  • Hardback
  • 234 pages
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • 15.5 x 23.2 x 2.1 cm

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The Virgin of Guadalupe, though quintessentially Mexican, inspires devotion throughout the Americas and around the world. This study sheds new light on the long-standing transnational dimensions of Guadalupan worship by examining the production of sacred space in three disparate but interconnected locations - at the sacred space known as Tepeyac in Mexico City, at its replica in Des Plaines, Illinois, and at a sidewalk shrine constructed by Mexican nationals in Chicago. Weaving together rich on-the-ground observations with insights drawn from performance studies, Elaine A. Pena demonstrates how devotees' rituals - pilgrimage, prayers, and festivals - develop, sustain, and legitimize these sacred spaces. Interdisciplinary in scope, "Performing Piety" paints a nuanced picture of the lived experience of Guadalupan devotion in which different forms of knowing, socio-economic and political coping tactics, conceptions of history, and faith-based traditions circulate within and between sacred spaces.

  • Title

    Performing Piety

  • Author

    Elaine A. Pena

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    University of California Press

  • Published

    June 2011

  • Weight

    454g

  • Page Count

    234

  • Dimensions

    15.5 x 23.2 x 2.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9780520268333

  • ISBN-10

    0520268334

  • Eden Code

    4024892

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