American Patroness - Marian Shrines and the Making of US Catholicism

A vital collection of interdisciplinary essays that illuminates the significance of Marian shrines and promises to teach scholars how to “read” them for decades to come. American Patroness: Marian Shrines and the Making of US Catholicism is a collection of twelve essays that examine the historical and contemporary roles of Marian shrines in US Catholicism. The essays in this collection use historical, ethnographic, and comparative methods to explore how Catholics have used Marian devotion to make an imprint on the physical and religious landscape of the United States. Using the dynamic malleability of Marian shrines as a starting place for studying US Catholicism, each chapter reconsiders the American religious landscape from the perspective of a single shrine to Mary and asks: What does this shrine reveal about US Catholicism and about American religion? Each of the contributors in American Patroness examines why and how Marian shrines persist in the twenty-first century and subsequently uses that examination to re-read contemporary US Catholicism. Because shrines are not neutral spaces—they reflect and shape the elastic yet strict boundaries of what counts as Catholic identity, and who controls prayer practices—the studies in this collection also shed light on the contested dynamics of these holy sites. American Patroness demonstrates that Marian shrines continue to be places where an American Catholic identity is continuously worked on, negotiations about power occur, and Marian relationships are fostered and nurtured in spaces that are simultaneously public and intimate.

General

Imprint:	Fordham University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Catholic Practice in the Americas
Release date:	December 2023
Editors:	Katherine Dugan • Karen E Park
Contributors:	Adrienne Nock Ambrose • Lloyd Barba • James S. Bielo • Katherine Dugan • David J. Endres • Kayla Harris • Patrick J. Hayes • Joseph Laycock
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Pages:	320
ISBN-13:	978-1-5315-0487-8
Categories:	Books
LSN:	1-5315-0487-6
Barcode:	9781531504878

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