Our Lady of the Exile : Diasporic Religion at a Cuban Catholic Shrine in Miami Hardback
by Thomas A. (Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Associate Professor of Religious Studies Tweed
Part of the Religion in America series
Hardback
Description
This is a study of Cuban-American popular Catholicism, focusing on the shrine of Our Lady of Charity in Miami, which is the sacred centre of the Cuban community in exile.
Tweed uses historical and ethnographic methods to discover why the shrine attained so much importance and attracts so many visitors, and what it can tell us about larger issues of religion, identity, and place.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:240 pages, halftones, line figures, tables
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:18/12/1997
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- ISBN:9780195105292
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:240 pages, halftones, line figures, tables
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:18/12/1997
- Category:
- ISBN:9780195105292
