Colonial sovereignty and the intermittent order of silver things

This essay investigates the location of silver altarware around the church altar in colonial Mexico to tell a new materialist story about social ordering in this historical context. The article argues that in New Spain at the end of the eighteenth century, the body of Christ incarnate was a shape-sh...

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Subtitles:The Social Order of Things: A Materialist Model for Comparing Religion
Main Author: Molina, J. Michelle 1967- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: 2025
In: Religion
Year: 2025, Volume: 55, Issue: 2, Pages: 477-492
Further subjects:B Sovereignty
B Material Culture
B altarware
B Catholicism
B New Spain
B Sacrament
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