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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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
[2017]
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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
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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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