Botánicas
Sacred Spaces of Healing and Devotion in Urban America
Botánicas is an exploration in text and photographs of spiritual shops found in Latino neighborhoods throughout the United States. Readers discover these marvelous spaces and their alternative spiritualties that help patrons cope with the grind and challenges of city life. Botánicas provide access to an array of invisible powers and sell the ingredients to construct symbolic solutions to their patrons' problems. The stores are bright and baroque, and the powers they invoke come from religious traditions in Africa, Europe, Asia, and the native Americas. In Botánicas, Joseph M. Murphy offers a cultural history of the devotions on display and a…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-62674-535-3
- EAN: 9781626745353
- Produktnummer: 20595464
- Verlag: LSU Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 212 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 9'873 KB
- Auflage: EPub Single
- Abbildungen: 145 color illustrations
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Joseph M. Murphy
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