The Virgin of el Barrio
Subtitle: Marian Apparitions, Catholic Evangelizing, and Mexican American Activism (Qualitative Studies in Religion)
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: May 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9780814758243
Subjects: Biography: general; Christian mission & evangelism; Mexican American Catholics; Cult; Religion - Charismatic / Pentecostal; Religious life; Religion; Arizona; Phoenix; Christianity - Catholic; Christianity - Pentecostal & Charismatic; Religion / Catholicism; Christianity - Pentecostalism; Guadalupe, Our Lady of; Mary's Ministries
First sentence: When I sat down at my computer to write this introduction, I tried very hard to think of a way to make the religious and cultural world embodied in a South Phoenix backyard shrine that has become so familiar and fascinating to me just as intriguing to a wider audience.