Our Lady of Controversy

Our Lady of Controversy
Author: Alicia Gaspar de Alba
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2011-04-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0292726422

Months before Alma López's digital collage Our Lady was shown at the Museum of International Folk Art in 2001, the museum began receiving angry phone calls from community activists and Catholic leaders who demanded that the image not be displayed. Protest rallies, prayer vigils, and death threats ensued, but the provocative image of la Virgen de Guadalupe (hands on hips, clad only in roses, and exalted by a bare-breasted butterfly angel) remained on exhibition. Highlighting many of the pivotal questions that have haunted the art world since the NEA debacle of 1988, the contributors to Our Lady of Controversy present diverse perspectives, ranging from definitions of art to the artist's intention, feminism, queer theory, colonialism, and Chicano nationalism. Contributors include the exhibition curator, Tey Marianna Nunn; award-winning novelist and Chicana historian Emma Pérez; and Deena González (recognized as one of the fifty most important living women historians in America). Accompanied by a bonus DVD of Alma López's I Love Lupe video that looks at the Chicana artistic tradition of reimagining la Virgen de Guadalupe, featuring a historic conversation between Yolanda López, Ester Hernández, and Alma López, Our Lady of Controversy promises to ignite important new dialogues.

Mexican Phoenix

Mexican Phoenix
Author: D. A. Brading
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521531603

Juan Diego, to whom the Virgin Mary appeared in 1531 miraculously imprinting her likeness on his cape, was canonised in Mexico in 2002 by Pope John Paul II. In 1999, the revered image of Our Lady of Guadalupe had been proclaimed patron saint of the Americas by the Pope. How did a poor Indian and a sixteenth-century Mexican painting of the Virgin Mary attract such unprecedented honours? Across the centuries the enigmatic power of the image has aroused fervent devotion in Mexico: it served as the banner of the rebellion against Spanish rule and, despite scepticism and anti-clericalism, still remains a potent symbol of the modern nation. This book traces the intellectual origins, the sudden efflorescence and the adamantine resilience of the tradition of Our Lady of Guadalupe and will fascinate anyone concerned with the history of religion and its symbols.

Our Lady of the Assassins

Our Lady of the Assassins
Author: Fernando Vallejo
Publisher: Profile Books
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2001
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Tie-in with the eponymous new film by Barbet Schroeder.

Our Lady of Emmitsburg, Visionary Culture, and Catholic Identity

Our Lady of Emmitsburg, Visionary Culture, and Catholic Identity
Author: Jill Krebs
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2015-12-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1498523560

This ethnography explores the community of believers in a series of Marian apparitions in rural Emmitsburg, Maryland, asking what it means to call oneself a Catholic and child of Our Lady in this context, what it means to believe in an apparition, and what it means to communicate with divine presence on earth. Believers fashion themselves as devotees of Our Lady in several ways. Through autobiography, they look backward in time to see their lives as leading up to their participation in the prayer group or in some cases moving to Emmitsburg. By observing and telling miracle stories, they adopt an enchanted worldview in which the miraculous becomes everyday. Through relationships with Our Lady, their lives are enriched and even transformed. When they negotiate institutional loyalty and individual autonomy, they affirm their own authority and Catholic identity. Finally, through social media, they expand their devotional networks in ways that shift authority structures and empower individuals. Individuals engage beliefs, practices, and attitudes both arising from and resisting elements of modernity, religious pluralism and religious decline, empowerment and perceived disempowerment, tradition and innovation, and institutional loyalty and perceived disloyalty to reveal one way of understanding Catholic identity amidst the shifts and flows of modern change.

Our Lady of Guadalupe and Saint Juan Diego

Our Lady of Guadalupe and Saint Juan Diego
Author: Eduardo Chávez
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2006-03-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 146164044X

In Our Lady of Guadalupe and Saint Juan Diego, Eduardo Chávez presents the most important points of the Great Guadalupan Event: the apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe to Juan Diego, a recently converted indigenous man, in Mexico. Through a utilization of the numerous historical documents and investigations of this event, Chávez details the reality of what occurred in the cold winter of 1531. As described by Pope John Paul II, "The Guadalupan Event is the perfectly inculturated Evangelization model." Chávez's historical analysis not only represents strong scholarship, but also draws the reader closer to the spiritual power of the events. As the newest contribution to the series Celebrating Faith: Explorations in Latino Spirituality and Theology, this work is of course ideal for use in Latino Studies, but also appeals to wider audience more curious about the Guadalupan event and its meaning for contemporary Christianity.

Fatima for Today

Fatima for Today
Author: Andrew Apostoli
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2010
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1586175238

Though the apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima took place almost a hundred years ago, Our Lady's call to prayer and penance for the salvation of souls and peace in the world is as relevant now as when first delivered to three Portuguese peasant children in 1917. At the peak of the First World War, our Lady warned of another worldwide conflict, the rise and spread of Communism, and a terrible persecution of the Church unless people repented of their sins and returned to God. She also requested devotion to her Immaculate Heart and a special consecration of Russia. Much of what Our Lady of Fatima said was revealed soon after her appearances, but the third and final "secret", which was not a message but a prophetic vision seen by the children, was not unveiled by the Vatican until 2000. Pope John Paul II, who read the third secret while recovering from the attempt upon his life in 1981, believed the vision signified the sufferings the Church had endured in the twentieth century. Because of the prophetic nature of her messages, Our Lady of Fatima has been the subject of much controversy and speculation. In this book, Father Andrew Apostoli carefully analyzes the events that took place in Fatima and clears up lingering questions and doubts about their meaning. He also challenges the reader to hear anew the call of Our Lady to prayer and sacrifice, for the world is ever in need of generous hearts willing to make reparation for those in danger of losing their way to God.

Our Lady at Garabandal

Our Lady at Garabandal
Author: Judith M. Albright
Publisher: Faith Publishing Company
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1992
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781880033043

Anne Boleyn

Anne Boleyn
Author: Lacey Baldwin-Smith
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2013-04-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1445618095

The epic tale of Henry VIII's feisty second wife.

The Guadalupan Controversies in Mexico

The Guadalupan Controversies in Mexico
Author: Stafford Poole
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780804752527

This is the first and only comprehensive work to deal with a relatively unknown facet of Mexican social and religious history, the debates over the historicity of the Guadalupe apparitions and the historical existence of Juan Diego.

First Lady Florence Harding

First Lady Florence Harding
Author: Katherine Amelia Siobhan Sibley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2009
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Turning to primary sources others have overlooked, Sibley challenges the cliches about Florence Harding's time in the national spotlight. She describes her support for racial equality, lobbying for better treatment for veterans and female prisoners and her lifelong interest in preventing animal cruelty.