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Title: Goddess of the Americas: Writings on the Virgin of Guadalupe by Ana Castillo ISBN: 1-57322-630-0 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
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Summary: Protestant gringa embraces the Virgin of Guadalupe
Comment: This marvelous book provides well-written, engaging essays and stories by a playwright, a commedian, a novelist, a historian, an anthropologist, and others who explain who the Virgin of Guadalupe is and why Mexicans, Central Americans, and others of the American Southwest venerate her and pray to her as their main contact with the Divine. The writers, almost all distinguished Latinos, suggest that the Virgin of Guadalupe is a direct descendant of the ancient gods and goddesses of central America, and that furthermore, she is a primary feminine face of the Divine. She may be the only appearance of the Virgin Mary to a poor, illiterate person of an indigenous people, and like the Indians of Mexico, whom she visited, she is dark-skinned. (She is also pregnant.) Her appearance to an Indian man, Juan Diego, shows her empathy with blue-collar workers and migrant laborers and with the oppressed and down-trodden. Therefore, she receives a tremendous outpouring of love and adoration, especially on the December anniversary of her appearance to Juan Diego. Hundreds of thousands in central America, Mexico, and the American Southwest hold her dear as a feminine Divine figure who is the warm, personal confidante and helper of women, the abused, and evolutionaries. On making her acquaintance, famous essayist Nancy Mairs converted to Catholicism--a feminist version of Catholicism. On reading this book, I, myself, a Protestant gringa, went right out and bought myself a humble grocery-store candle portraying Guadalupe and began burning it, in solidarity with poor and oppressed women everywhere, and to present my own, personal concerns to the Divine. Since, I've met other women who have responded in the very same way. This book expands one's understanding of culture and history and also enriches one's spirituality.
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Title: Billy Sunday and the Redemption of Urban America (Library of Religious Biography) by Lyle W. Dorsett ISBN: 080280151X Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 February, 1991 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: The Aztec Virgin: The Secret Mystical Tradition of Our Lady of Guadalupe by John Mini ISBN: 0965782506 Publisher: Trans-Hyperborean Institute Pub. Date: 27 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Our Lady of Guadalupe: Faith and Empowerment Among Mexican-American Women by Jeanette Rodriguez ISBN: 0292770626 Publisher: University of Texas Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1994 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Wonders of America: Reinventing Jewish Culture 1880-1950 by Jenna Weissman Joselit ISBN: 0805070028 Publisher: Owl Books (NY) Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Road to Guadalupe: A Modern Pilgrimage to the Goddess of the Americas by Eryk Hanut ISBN: 1585421200 Publisher: Jeremy P. Tarcher Pub. Date: 11 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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