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Mother Figured (Paperback)
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Mother Figured (Paperback)
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There is no female religious figure so widely known and revered as
the Virgin Mary. Throughout history, Mary has inspired in a
multitude of cultures around the world a deep affection, a desire
to emulate her virtue, and a strong belief in the power of her
apparitions and miracles. Perhaps no population has been so deeply
affected by this maternal figure as Filipino Catholics, whose
apparitions of Mary have increasingly emerged and responded to
recent events, drawing from a broad repertoire of the Catholic
supernatural as they draw media attention to the global south. In
Mother Figured, historical anthropologist Deirdre de la Cruz offers
a detailed examination of several appearances and miracles of the
Virgin Mary in the Philippines from materials and sites ranging
from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. By analyzing the
effects of the mass media on the perception and proliferation of
apparition phenomena, de la Cruz charts the intriguing emergence of
new voices in the Philippines that are broadcasting Marian
discourse globally. Based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork
and hitherto unexplored archives in the Philippines, the United
States, and Spain, Mother Figured documents the conditions of
Marian devotion's modern development and tracks how it has
transformed Filipinos' social and political role within the greater
Catholic world.
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