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Figuring Catholicism: An Ethnohistory of the Santo Niño de Cebu

Julius J. Bautista

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Description:This book is about a statue of Christ as a boy worshipped by millions of Filipinos from all walks of life. Today the Santo Niño—said to be the same wooden figure brought to the islands by Ferdinand Magellan at the moment of his 1521 "discovery" of the Philippines—is enshrined in a bullet-proof glass case in a Basilica that hosts throngs of devotees during its Friday novenas. The author combines ethnography with historiography and discourse analysis to study how our most prevalent assumptions about the figure are produced and disseminated. What ideas have sustained such assumptions after all this time? How did the figure become such a popular "national" treasure? To what can we attribute the Santo Niño's appeal outside the official doctrines of the Catholic faith? This book looks at historical documents, popular songs, news articles, poems, and oral accounts to address such questions. In doing so, the book describes the contours of a "figured" Catholicism as the context in which we can think about the Santo Niño in ways we have not done before.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Figuring Catholicism: An Ethnohistory of the Santo Niño de Cebu. To get started finding Figuring Catholicism: An Ethnohistory of the Santo Niño de Cebu, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Publisher: Ateneo de Manila University Press

Release: 2010

ISBN: 9715506127

Description: This book is about a statue of Christ as a boy worshipped by millions of Filipinos from all walks of life. Today the Santo Niño—said to be the same wooden figure brought to the islands by Ferdinand Magellan at the moment of his 1521 "discovery" of the Philippines—is enshrined in a bullet-proof glass case in a Basilica that hosts throngs of devotees during its Friday novenas. The author combines ethnography with historiography and discourse analysis to study how our most prevalent assumptions about the figure are produced and disseminated. What ideas have sustained such assumptions after all this time? How did the figure become such a popular "national" treasure? To what can we attribute the Santo Niño's appeal outside the official doctrines of the Catholic faith? This book looks at historical documents, popular songs, news articles, poems, and oral accounts to address such questions. In doing so, the book describes the contours of a "figured" Catholicism as the context in which we can think about the Santo Niño in ways we have not done before.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Figuring Catholicism: An Ethnohistory of the Santo Niño de Cebu. To get started finding Figuring Catholicism: An Ethnohistory of the Santo Niño de Cebu, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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