The Body of Mary: Embodiment and Identity in Modern Apparitions

In modern Marian apparitions, Mary’s material presence is evoked for believers, who negotiate religious and other identities around her maternal figure. My contention, drawing from material theories of religion and postcolonial theories, and based on ethnographic fieldwork at one apparition site in...

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Main Author: Krebs, Jill (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill [2017]
In: Religion & gender
Year: 2017, Volume: 7, Issue: 2, Pages: 224-239
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Marian apparition / Marian devotion / Materiality / Identity / History 1839-2017
IxTheo Classification:CB Christian life; spirituality
KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history
KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
KDB Roman Catholic Church
NBJ Mariology
Further subjects:B Postcolonial Theory
B Catholic Identity
B Material Religion
B Apparition
B Our Lady
B Mary
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