Miraculous Images and Votive Offerings in Mexico
| Author | : Frank Graziano |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 353 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780199790869 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0199790868 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (868 Downloads) |
Download or read book Miraculous Images and Votive Offerings in Mexico written by Frank Graziano and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2016 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miraculous Images and Votive Offerings in Mexico explores such petitionary devotion in depth through extensive fieldwork supported by research in a vast body of interdisciplinary scholarship. The study's principal themes include sacred power and human agency, reification, projective animation, faith as a cognitive filter, sacred power transfer, social and narrative construction, positive framing, collaborative and deferred control, vows (juramentos), and miracle attribution. --Publisher description.
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