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American Patroness : Marian Shrines and the Making of US Catholicism / Katherine Dugan and Karen E. Park, editors.

Format Book and Print
EditionFirst edition.
Publication Info New York : Fordham University Press, 2024.
Copyright Notice ©2024
Description312 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.
Subject(s)
Other author/creatorDugan, Katherine, editor, author.
Other author/creatorPark, Karen E., editor, author.
Other author/creatorAmbrose, Adrienne Nock, author.
Other author/creatorBarba, Lloyd Daniel, author.
Other author/creatorBielo, James S., author.
Other author/creatorEndres, David J. (David Jeffrey), 1979- author.
Other author/creatorHarris, Kayla, author.
Other author/creatorHayes, Patrick J., 1966- author.
Other author/creatorLaycock, Joseph, 1980- author.
Other author/creatorRey, Terry, author.
Other author/creatorSelka, Stephen, author.
Other author/creatorVaughn, Claire, author.
Other author/creatorWalker-Cornetta, Andrew, author.
Series Catholic practice in the Americas
Contents Introduction / Katherine Dugan and Karen E. Park -- Part I: Mapping Marian Places. "Lourdes of the Southwest": The Borderlands Transformation of a Nineteenth-Century French Shrine / Adrienne Nock Ambrose -- "Guadalupe Represents La Cultura": A Mexican American Mural-Shrine in California / Lloyd Barba -- A Global Odyssey: Our Lady of Perpetual Help and the Promise to "Make Her Known" / Patrick J. Hayes -- The Battle of Bayside: Contesting Religious Topographies in an Urban Apparition Site / Joseph P. Laycock -- Part II: Shifting Marian Meanings. Fatima Family Shrine: Reinterpreting Mary on the South Dakota Prairie / Katherine Dugan -- Consolation's Many Faces: Ethnic Intersections at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Consolation in Carey, Ohio / David J. Endres -- American Czestochowa: Polish Piety and Haitian Hybridities of Marian Meaning in Pennsylvania / Terry Rey -- The National Shrine Basilica of Our Lady of Fatima: Meaning Making at a Cold War Niagara Falls Tourist Shrine / Karen E. Park -- Part III: Devotional Creativity at Marian Shrines. Digital Devotion: Marian Shrines Online / Kayla Harris -- Our Lady of the Underpass: Sacred and Social Space in the City / Stephen Selka -- Materiality and Attachment: Universality and Locality at Roman Catholic Pilgrimage Sites / Claire Vaughn and James S. Bielo -- "These Are Our Saints": A Lourdes Shrine, the St. Coletta School for Exceptional Children, and the Catholic Remaking of Cognitive Disability / Andrew Walker-Cornetta.
Abstract "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." --Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 289-305) and index.
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