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  • Devotion in Motion

    Pilgrimage in Modern Mexico

    by Edward Wright-Ríos ...
    A study of contemporary pilgrimage through the elastic history of a shrine in Oaxaca, Mexico.For many, pilgrimage conjures ideas about ancient traditions and somber journeys of self-discovery—an escape from modern life. In Devotion in Motion, Edward Wright-Ríos argues that we misunderstand pilgrimage (past and present) if we ignore its dynamic relationship with the rhythms of daily life and ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Revolutions in Mexican Catholicism

    Reform and Revelation in Oaxaca, 1887–1934

    by Edward Wright-Rios ...
    In Revolutions in Mexican Catholicism, Edward Wright-Rios investigates how Catholicism was lived and experienced in the Archdiocese of Oaxaca, a region known for its distinct indigenous cultures and vibrant religious life, during the turbulent period of modernization in Mexico that extended from the late nineteenth century through the early twentieth. Wright-Rios centers his analysis on three ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Searching for Madre Matiana

    Prophecy and Popular Culture in Modern Mexico

    by Edward Wright-Rios ...
    Series series Diálogos Series
    In the mid-nineteenth century prophetic visions attributed to a woman named Madre Matiana roiled Mexican society. Pamphlets of the time proclaimed that decades earlier a humble laywoman foresaw the nation’s calamitous destiny—foreign invasion, widespread misery, and chronic civil strife. The revelations, however, pinpointed the cause of Mexico’s struggles: God was punishing the nation for ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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  • Mary, Mother and Warrior

    The Virgin in Spain and the Americas

    by Linda B. Hall ...
    A Mother who nurtures, empathizes, and heals... a Warrior who defends, empowers, and resists oppression... the Virgin Mary plays many roles for the peoples of Spain and Spanish-speaking America. Devotion to the Virgin inspired and sustained medieval and Renaissance Spaniards as they liberated Spain from the Moors and set about the conquest of the New World. Devotion to the Virgin still inspires ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Cachita's Streets

    The Virgin of Charity, Race, and Revolution in Cuba

    by Jalane D. Schmidt ...
    Series series Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People
    Cuba’s patron saint, the Virgin of Charity of El Cobre, also called Cachita, is a potent symbol of Cuban national identity. Jalane D. Schmidt shows how groups as diverse as Indians and African slaves, Spanish colonial officials, Cuban independence soldiers, Catholic authorities and laypeople, intellectuals, journalists and artists, practitioners of spiritism and Santería, activists, politicians, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Biography of a Mexican Crucifix

    Lived Religion and Local Faith from the Conquest to the Present

    by Jennifer Scheper Hughes ...
    In 1543, in a small village in Mexico, a group of missionary friars received from a mysterious Indian messenger an unusual carved image of Christ crucified. The friars declared it the most poignantly beautiful depiction of Christ's suffering they had ever seen. Known as the Cristo Aparecido (the "Christ Appeared"), it quickly became one of the most celebrated religious images in colonial Mexico. ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Camino de Santiago - Practical Preparation and Background

    by Gerald Kelly ...
    Fully revised and updated in May 2026.This book is intended for people planning to walk a Camino for the first time. It contains detailed, practical, impartial information and advice to help you prepare. It is based on the author's personal experience gained over nearly twenty years walking Caminos and on the experiences of many other pilgrims.The following topics are covered in detail:Which ... Read more

    $3.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Theater of a Thousand Wonders

    A History of Miraculous Images and Shrines in New Spain

    by William B. Taylor ...
    Series Book 103 - Cambridge Latin American Studies
    The great many shrines of New Spain have become long-lived sites of shared devotion and contestation across social groups. They have provided a lasting sense of enchantment, of divine immanence in the present, and a hunger for epiphanies in daily life. This is a story of consolidation and growth during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, rather than one of rise and decline in the face of ... Read more

    $166.49 USD

  • Redeemers

    Ideas and Power in Latin America

    by Enrique Krauze ...

    $7.99 USD

  • Walking the Camino

    a modern pilgrimage to Santiago

    by Tony Kevin ...
    In May 2006, armed only with a small rucksack and a staff, Tony Kevin, an overweight, sedentary, 63-year-old former diplomat, set off on an eight-week trek across Spain. But this was not just a very long walk — it was a pilgrimage.From Granada, in the southeast, to Santiago de Compostela, in the far northwest, Tony followed the Via Mozarabe and the Via de la Plata, two of the many pilgrim trails ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Cruel Modernity

    by Jean Franco ...
    In Cruel Modernity, Jean Franco examines the conditions under which extreme cruelty became the instrument of armies, governments, rebels, and rogue groups in Latin America. She seeks to understand how extreme cruelty came to be practiced in many parts of the continent over the last eighty years and how its causes differ from the conditions that brought about the Holocaust, which is generally the ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Anarchist Education and the Modern School

    A Francisco Ferrer Reader

    by Francisco Ferrer ...
    On October 13, 1909, Francisco Ferrer, the notorious Catalan anarchist educator and founder of the Modern School, was executed by firing squad. The Spanish government accused him of masterminding the Tragic Week rebellion, while the transnational movement that emerged in his defence argued that he was simply the founder of the groundbreaking Modern School of Barcelona. Was Ferrer a ferocious ... Read more

    $7.39 USD