Publication

2018 - BRILL

Language

English

Word Count

80,500 words, Guess

Page Count

322 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139789004384644
  • ISBN-109004384642
  • ISSN0920-8607
  • Library of Congress Control Number2018047597
  • OCLC Control Number1043594649
and 2 more
  • Better World Books9789004384644
  • Open LibraryOL38037631M

Classifications

  • LCCN8012.H43K55 2018
  • LCCN8012.H43 K55 2019

Description

Holy Organ or Unholy Idol?' focuses on the significance of the cult of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and its accompanying imagery in eighteenth-century New Spain. Lauren G. Kilroy-Ewbank considers paintings, prints, devotional texts, and archival sources within the Mexican context alongside issues and debates occurring in Europe to situate the New Spanish cult within local and global developments. She examines the iconography of these religious images and frames them within broader socio-political and religious discourses related to the Eucharist, the sun, the Jesuits, scientific and anatomical ideas, and mysticism. Images of the Heart helped to champion the cult's validity as it was attacked by religious reformers.

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