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Guadalupan Devotion in Mexico: A Historiographical Consideration
Author(s) -
Hall Linda
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
history compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.121
H-Index - 1
ISSN - 1478-0542
DOI - 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2008.00568.x
Subject(s) - historiography , psychology , history , social psychology , aesthetics , art , archaeology
The scholarly attention to devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico has shifted, from the 1970s on, from struggles over whether or not she actually appeared in 1531 to discussions of the nature of that devotion in two ways in which it has taken on personal, religious, and national significance: that is, the ways in which individuals and Mexican society have reacted and interacted with this most important figure.