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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.Book Details
- Publisher: Fordham University Press
- Publish Date: Jan 2nd, 2024
- Pages: 320
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.00in - 0.73in - 1.06lb
- EAN: 9781531504885
- Categories: • Christianity - Catholic - General• Buildings - Religious• Subjects & Themes - Religious
About the Author
Park, Karen E.: - Karen E. Park is Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at St. Norbert College, in De Pere, Wisconsin. She has written widely on Marian devotion and shrines and American religion and popular culture. She holds a PhD from the Divinity School of the University of Chicago.
Barba, Lloyd: - Lloyd Barba is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion and core faculty in Latinx and Latin American Studies at Amherst College. His book, Sowing the Sacred: Mexican Pentecostal Farmworkers in California (Oxford University Press, 2022), uses photographs and oral histories of early and mid-century Mexican Pentecostal farmworkers to render counter-narratives of their religious and cultural productions.
Bielo, James S.: - James S. Bielo is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Northwestern University. He is the author of five books, most recently, Materializing the Bible: Scripture, Sensation, Place (Bloomsbury, 2021).
Endres, David J.: - David J. Endres, a priest of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, is Academic Dean and Professor of Church History and Historical Theology at Mount St. Mary's Seminary and School of Theology in Cincinnati. In 2018, he was the preacher for the National Shrine of Our Lady of Consolation's largest annual event, the novena culminating in the solemnity of the Assumption of Mary.
Harris, Kayla: - Kayla Harris is the Director of the Marian Library and Associate Professor at the University of Dayton. Her research interests include teaching with primary sources and digital humanities projects.
Hayes, Patrick J.: - Patrick J. Hayes is the archivist for the Redemptorists and is based in Philadelphia. He has taught at several Catholic colleges in the United States and, in 2010, was a visiting professor at the University of Makeni in Sierra Leone. The author or editor of five books, as well as numerous essays and reviews, Hayes serves on the board of managers of the American Catholic Historical Society.
Laycock, Joseph: - Joseph P. Laycock is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Texas State University. He is a co-editor for the journal Nova Religio. His recent books include Speak of the Devil: How the Satanic Temple Is Changing the Way We Talk About Religion (2020) and The Penguin Book of Exorcisms (2020).
Dugan, Katherine: - Katherine Dugan is associate professor of religious studies at Springfield College (MA). She is the author of Millennial Missionaries: How a Group of Young Catholics is Making Catholicism Cool (Oxford, 2019) and is currently working on an ethnographic study of Catholics who practice Natural Family Planning.
Rey, Terry: - Terry Rey was formerly Professeur de sociologie des religions at l'Université d'État d'Haïti and is currently Professor of Religion at Temple University. He is the author of over one hundred scholarly articles, chapters, and reviews, and author or editor of eight books, including Bourdieu on Religion: Imposing Faith and Legitimacy (Routledge 2007) and The Priest and the Prophetess: Abbé Ouvière, Romaine Rivière, and the Revolutionary Atlantic World (Oxford University Press, 2017).
Selka, Stephen: - Stephen Selka received his PhD in cultural anthropology from the University at Albany, SUNY. He is currently an Associate Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at Indiana University. His work focuses on religion and race in the Americas, particularly Brazil and the United States.
Vaughn, Claire: - Claire Vaughn is a recent graduate of Miami University. She majored in Anthropology with a focus in linguistic anthropology and religious studies. She is a coauthor of "Materializing the Bible: A Digital Scholarship Project from the Anthropology of Religion," with Dr. James S. Bielo, and is currently pursuing graduate programs to further foster her commitment to religious and anthropological studies.
Walker-Cornetta, Andrew: - Andrew Walker-Cornetta is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Georgia State University in Atlanta. His research explores cultural locations of disability as sites of religious practice. He is currently working on a book manuscript about U.S. Catholics and cognitive impairment in the middle of the twentieth century. Prior to joining the faculty at Georgia State, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis, and he is currently part of an emerging scholar cohort at Indiana University's Center on Religion and the Human.
Praise for this book
American Patroness is a major contribution to the study of US Catholicism and American religion. The helpful introduction and vivid case studies offer surprising insights about the complexity and vitality of devotion today, not only at traditional shrines but also tourist sites, urban underpasses, and digital spaces. Indispensable for specialists but of interest to everyone who wants to know more about the contemporary religious landscape.---Thomas A. Tweed, author of Religion: A Very Short Introduction
Mary tumbles into material existence at shrines throughout the United States, where devotees celebrate her special powers to help navigate their lives. In American Patroness, we finally have an interdisciplinary collection of studies of Marian "shrinescapes," from old revered churches to new highway underpasses, in all their endurance, adaptability, mess, and excess. Particularly wonderful is the metaphor of "conversation" used by editors Katherine Dugan and Karen E. Park--a theoretical innovation that invites us to "start anywhere" in understanding places that "pile on" many meanings, including multiple Marys. Anyone interested in US religion will be lucky to tumble into this critical new analysis of Mary's reach and importance in America. Start anywhere, but get in on the conversation.---Julie Byrne, Msgr. Thomas J. Hartman Chair of Catholic Studies at Hofstra University
This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date collection of Marian shrine devotionalism that I have read, and I urge everyone interested in understanding the enduring power and persistence of shrines devoted to the Virgin Mary to read this book. American Patroness is an exciting and important new collection that features top scholars of Catholicism who effectively translate the power and beauty of belief, prayer, and community in shared and communal spaces. Deeply researched and clearly written and excellent for class use.---Kristy Nabhan-Warren, author of Meatpacking America: How Migration, Work, and Faith Unite and Divide the Heartland
American Patroness is beautiful in its multiplicity. This is much more than a book on Marian shrines, it is a book that explores Catholic devotion in its radical, conservative, and irreverent registers. Here we find informal shrines made from murals and underpasses, and shrines in their most triumphalist institutional forms--each offering a different vision of what it means to be Catholic in the US. Across these shrinescapes, Catholics work out approaches to immigration, disability, reproductive politics and gentrification. Shrines are no quaint remnants of a Catholic devotional past, but a key, mutable resource for exploring the contours of Catholicism in our contemporary world.---Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada, author of Lifeblood of the Parish: Men and Catholic Devotion in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Marian shrines connect Catholics to each other and to a past replete with meaning and emotion. American Patroness explores twelve sites of Marian devotion, uncovering worlds of cultural, ethnic, and creative variety. Reading American Patroness is like taking a trip through American Catholic history, as witnessed by those who devote themselves to the Virgin Mary and who call the United States home.---Michael Pasquier, Professor Religious Studies and History, Louisiana State University
American Patroness is a remarkable and timely collection of essays that reframe American religion through the histories, experiences, politics, and imaginations of Marian shrines. Its essays go far beyond documenting the existence of these material touchstones of Catholic faith to demonstrate the richness of Catholic devotional culture to the formation of American identities writ large. One need not specialize in Catholic studies to benefit from the volume's robust analyses of immigration, white supremacy, gender, ritual, authority, and space and place. Like the shrines to Mary in her many appearances across the United States, American Patroness draws us in to the lived experiences of devotional practice and embodied encounter that refuse our tidy categories of intellectual analysis.---Rachel McBride Lindsey, Associate Professor of American Religion and Culture and Director of Lived Religion in the Digital Age, Saint Louis University