Religion as art
Subtitle: Guadalupe, Orishas, and Sufi
By: edited by Steven Loza.
Contributors: Loza, Steven Joseph.; National Hispanic Cultural Center of New Mexico. Inter-disciplinary Conference.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Albuquerque, NM
Language: eng
Number of pages: 353
ISBN-13: 9780826345707
Subjects: Arts and religion -- Congresses; Guadalupe, Our Lady of -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Description: "Steven Loza explores how the iconic aspects of religion transcend mere symbolism with a collection of essays that examine the arts and their relationship to religious belief in three cultural areas of the world: the Mexican mestizo belief in the Virgen de Guadalupe, the West African Yoruba religion's base in a divination system of orishas, and the Sufi sect of Islam's musical/textual practices of devotional ecstasy to God. The essays included here were originally presented at the 2004 international conference "Towards a Theory for Religion as Art: Guadalupe, Orishas, and Sufi," organized by the Arts of the Americas Institute at the University of New Mexico. While they reflect the interdisciplinary design and dialogue of the conference, the essays also reveal that many of the arts are conceptualized cross-culturally, ranging from visual art and poetry to music and dance, and offer comparative studies of their relationships to society, politics, and culture in general."--Book cover.
Notes: Based on proceedings from the Inter-disciplinary Conference at the National Hispanic Cultural Center.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Guadalupe and the historical interpretation of religion as art; title: Guadalupe and Los Remedios : how each gained its characteristic identity / by Francisco Miranda Godínez; title: Municipal art in early Guadalupan processions / by Martinus Cawley; title: Virgin Mary, Guadalupe, and migration : images from the mid-sixteenth and late-twentieth centuries / by Linda B. Hall; title: Our Lady of Guadalupe in historical perspective / by Stafford Poole; title: Visual and poetic art : history, aesthetics, and religion from Merriam to Guadalupe : toward a theory for religion as art / by Steven Loza; title: Maravilla Americana : the Virgin of Guadalupe and the ideal spectator / by Ray Hernández-Durán; title: Editing the anthology renaming ecstasy : Latino writings on the sacred / by Orlando Ricardo Menes; title: Musical relationships of faith and art in celebrating the Guadalupe tradition; title: The presence of Miguel Bernal Jiménez in the fiftieth anniversary of the coronation of the Virgin of Guadalupe / by Lorena Díaz Núñez; title: Musical witness to the beautiful Mestiza : art as experience of the sacred / by Sylvia Tan; title: Guadalupe and the Native American experience; title: Indigenous mysticism / by Maria Williams; title: Guadalupe : an indigenous mythic education perspective / by Gregory A. Cajete; title: The Pueblo Indian experience / by Joe Sando; title: Comparative concepts in the praxis of religion as art; title: The virgins of Guadalupe (Tonantzin) and La Caridad del Cobre (Ochún) : two Marian devotions as fluid symbols of collective and individual cultural identities / by Francisco J. Crespo; title: Guadalupe, Yemanjá, and the Orixás of Candomblé : an embodiment of religion, art, and music / by Clarence Bernard Henry; title: Afro-Cuban danced religious practices as everyday art : confluence in motion / by Teresa Marrero; title: Observing the unobservable / by Charles E. Moore; title: Path to the divine : music in the Sufi experience / by Ali Jihad Racy; title: Yoruba religious arts, secularization, and modern music theater / by Akin Euba; title: The spirit of Guadalupe : immigration, human rights, and spiritual conflict; title: Tlecuauhtlazupeuth : belief and resonance : El Contradecir de Guadalupe-Tonantzin / by Juan Gómez-Quiñones; title: Can Hispanic immigration change fundamental attitudes in United States foreign policy? / by Luis Antonio Payan; title: Religion and art : the Santa Fe art controversy about the imprint of Our Lady of Guadalupe / by Janice Schuetz; title: Unbraiding stories about law, sexuality, and morality / by Margaret Montoya; title: Conclusion: The mystical roots of American political democracy : social justice and religious belief in a newer world / by Timothy A. Canova.