Time to Pray: Devotional Rhythms and Space Sacralization Processes at the Mexico-US Border
This essay uses the Gateway to the Americas International Bridge at the Port of Laredo to examine Catholic parish life at la Parroquia Santo Niño in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Considering how infrastructure works, how it literally keeps people and objects moving, nuances our understanding of...
| Published in: | Material religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
[2017]
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| In: |
Material religion
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA
/ Boundary
/ Mexico
/ Public space
/ Sacralization
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| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality KBQ North America KBR Latin America |
| Further subjects: | B
Border religion
B Catholicism (Mexico) B devotional rhythms B Infrastructure |
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Volltext (Verlag) |
| Summary: | This essay uses the Gateway to the Americas International Bridge at the Port of Laredo to examine Catholic parish life at la Parroquia Santo Niño in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Considering how infrastructure works, how it literally keeps people and objects moving, nuances our understanding of the devotional rhythms and space sacralization processes of actors who move and wait in a border environment. Contributing to debates about rhythm and mobility in border studies, it highlights religion's temporal particularities - specifically the role that an international bridge plays in influencing where, when, and how often border-based actors manage worship and spaces of reflection. Thinking with scholars of material religion, this essay maintains that accounting for border infrastructure is worthwhile. Using infrastructure as a primary reference point can productively challenge still influential distinctions between American and Latin American religion. It will also show that infrastructure not only animates religious practice and dictates devotional rhythms within the walls of la Parroquia, but also facilitates or at times deters movement to and from that site of worship. Mapping out routes and relationships among objects, places, and people, it traces how parish life and international bridge usage are inextricably linked across several planes - geographic, temporal, cultural, and economic; it is impossible to understand the significance of one without attending to the other. |
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| Item Description: | Heft: Special issue of "Material Religion". Special issue is dedicated to Latin America, and really to Las Américas … |
| ISSN: | 1751-8342 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Material religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/17432200.2017.1379376 |