CRUSADERS, MARTYRS, AND SAINTS: REPRESENTATIONS OF CHRISTIAN MILITANCY IN MEXICO, 1850-2013
Issue Date
2015-12-31Author
Delgado Solórzano, Edma Ixchel
Publisher
University of Kansas
Format
229 pages
Type
Dissertation
Degree Level
Ph.D.
Discipline
Spanish & Portuguese
Rights
Copyright held by the author.
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This study examines the intersections between religious practices and violence, and their representations. It explores how religious insurgents in Mexico have employed religious imagery and expression to foment or justify collective acts of violence. While close reading is my primary critical approach, I also draw on cultural studies, subaltern studies, and postcolonial studies to provide a framework for the interpretation of non-script cultural products (i.e. icons, relics, and bodies) and epistemologies; these instruments facilitate analysis of the broad range of cultural products produced by religious insurgents. My work dialogues with scholars who study religious insurgencies from multiple disciplines including anthropology, history, political science, and communication studies.
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