God-Bearers on Pilgrimage to Tepeyac:

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" God-Bearers on Pilgrimage to Tepeyac: "
Jennifer Scheper Hughes

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1081644
Doc. No	:	LA125273
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15685292-01801009‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Jennifer Scheper Hughes
Title & Author	:	God-Bearers on Pilgrimage to Tepeyac: [Article] : A Scholar of Religion Encounters the Material Dimension of Marian Devotion in Mexico\ Jennifer Scheper Hughes
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Religion and the Arts
Date	:	2014
Volume/ Issue Number	:	18/1-2
Page No	:	156–183
Abstract	:	‭Contemporary ritual practice at the Virgin of Guadalupe’s shrine at Tepeyac emphasizes the material dimension of the sacred in Mexico: every day, ritual actions at the shrine confer power, prestige, and potency to images, effigies, and other replicas of the Virgin. One particularly pronounced devotional practice involves the carrying of replicas of the Virgin as sacred burdens: pilgrims carry these sometimes quite cumbersome objects tied to their backs as they make their way to Tepeyac hill. Drawing on the photographic series The Road to Tepeyac (2010) by Mexican-British photographer Alinka Echeverría, among other sources, this article explores the ritual processes by which material is infused with spirit and the body of the devotee becomes fused with the body of the Virgin. The analysis is contextualized within the history of devotional practice in Mexico.‬
Descriptor	:	Art History
Descriptor	:	Comparative Religion Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	History
Descriptor	:	material religion
Descriptor	:	Mexico
Descriptor	:	pilgrimage
Descriptor	:	religious ritual
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	Virgin of Guadalupe
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15685292-01801009‬