Saints of Resistance
Devotions in the Philippines under Early Spanish Rule
Eighty percent of Filipinos (about 80 million people) identify with the Catholic faith. Visitors to the Philippines might find it surprising that images of Catholic saints, the Child Christ, and the Virgin Mary can be seen in all kinds of public and private spaces throughout this Asian country, such as in restaurants, shopping malls, pasted to walls, painted on buses, and of course, in-home altars. Many of these saints bear Spanish names and their legends almost always date to the period of Spanish colonialism.Saints of Resistance: Devotions in the Philippines under Early Spanish Rule explores why, in spite of their fraught history with Spani…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-091615-2
- EAN: 9780190916152
- Produktnummer: 37978991
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Plattform: PDF
Über den Autor
Christina H. Lee is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Princeton University.
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