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Author: Chloë Sayer Publisher: University of Texas Press ISBN: 9780292722095 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 132
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Explores a variety of Mexican festivals, most of which are spiritual or religious, including the holidays of Christmas, Carnival, and Holy week, and covers the Days of the Dead, the sacred arts of the Huichol ethnic group, and more, with photographs.
Author: Chloë Sayer Publisher: University of Texas Press ISBN: 9780292722095 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 132
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Explores a variety of Mexican festivals, most of which are spiritual or religious, including the holidays of Christmas, Carnival, and Holy week, and covers the Days of the Dead, the sacred arts of the Huichol ethnic group, and more, with photographs.
Author: Daath Gnosis Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1105533670 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 115
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This book is a critical English translation of a "The Book of the Virgin of Carmel" published in 1952. It is presented in a bilingual format (English side by side with the original Spanish). It is shares a Gnostic perspective on the Divine Feminine. "Mary knew the Secret Doctrine of the Tribe of Levi. Mary was educated in the august shade of the porticos of Jerusalem, among the nubile foliage of the oriental palmtrees, beneath the shade of which rested the old camel drivers of the desert." "That holy Christic doctrine was preserved in secret within the Mysteries of Egypt, Troy, Rome, Carthage, Eleusis, etc." "The greatest thing that Christ did was to make the old doctrine public on the roads of Jerusalem." "And it was Mary, the Virgin of Carmel, who was designated by Divinity to be the Mother of the Divine Redeemer of the World."
Author: Luis Lasso de la Vega Publisher: ISBN: 9780804734820 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 151
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The devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe is one of the most important elements in the development of a specifically Mexican tradition of religion and nationality over the centuries. The picture of the Virgen morena (Dark Virgin) is to be found everywhere throughout Mexico, and her iconography is varied almost beyond telling. Though innumerable books, both historical and devotional, have been published on the Guadalupan legend in this century alone, it is only recently that its textual sources have been closely studied. This volume makes available to the English-reading public an easily accessible translation from the original Nahuatl of the story itself and the entire book in which the story is embedded. The study also provides scholars with new perspectives on a text long at the center of Mexican intellectual currents. Through the use of technical philological methods, it indicates that the text may have been authored in the mid-seventeenth century by a Spanish-Mexican priest, based on an earlier text by a colleague of his, and that it was not the product of Nahuatl oral tradition. The story of the apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe to a poor indigenous man less than fifteen years after the Spanish conquest of Mexico did not come into prominence until the mid-seventeeth century. The first known telling of the tale appeared in a book published in Spanish in 1648 by the priest Miguel Sánchez. On the heels of the Sánchez version, the story was included in the book Huei tlamahuiçoltica published in 1649 by Luis Laso de la Vega, the vicar of the Guadalupe chapel and a friend of Sánchez. It had little impact initially, but by the twentieth century, with indigenism triumphant, it had become the best known version. There have been a few translations of Laso de la Vega’s apparition story into English but only on a popular or devotional level. The present edition offers a translation and transcription of the complete text of the 1649 edition, together with critical apparatus, including comparisons of the Sánchez and Laso de la Vega texts, and various linguistic, orthographic, and typographical matters that throw light on the date and manner of composition.
Author: Juan CáCeres Chamorro Publisher: Palibrio ISBN: 1463332866 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 271
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La Sombra de la dictadura es una novela de la vida real. Es una historia que vivió el pueblo paraguayo en la época de la dictadura, años de sufrimiento y de dolor, un buen día salió de la sombra a luchar por la paz y por la dignidad de su pueblo así empezó la lucha por derrocar al despiadado dictadura. Juan experimento la dictadura con su propia vida, por eso escribió tal como lo sintió los sufrimiento de su pueblo y de la familia paraguaya en aquella época. Fueron crueles los días, fueron días grises y dolorosos aquellos días para todos los pueblos. Escribió con su puño y dolor cada sufrimiento de su pueblo, quedara plasmada por siempre la historia de la familia de esta historia. Juan salió de su país en busca de nuevos horizonte, la dictadura no le dio oportunidad de sobresalir en nada así llego a la tierra de oportunidades y ahora vive en New York tratando de olvidar los tiempos sangrientos de la época de la dictadura.
Author: Claudia Guadalupe Olivas Publisher: Palibrio ISBN: 1463322011 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 167
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Te invito a usar tus ojos de una manera diferente. Redescubre el verdadero sentido del mirar: hazlo con los verdaderos ojos, los del espíritu. Cuando aceptes esta invitación, podrás lanzar UNA MIRADA AL CIELO y encontrarás una maravillosa sorpresa: el descubrimiento del paraíso y la vida eterna que se abre ante ti. Realiza conmigo este viaje y encuentra los designios que Dios me ha revelado para ti. Descubre, a través de la lectura de esta obra testimonial, experiencias por las que he pasado yo misma y por las que han pasado otros, y una respuesta a las interrogantes existenciales: ¿Qué es la muerte física? ¿Qué hay más allá de ella? ¿Somos solo polvo que se extingue y lleva el viento o somos un espíritu que trasciende? ¿Existe un juicio superior después de la muerte? Y si es así, ¿quién lo hace? ¿Existe Dios? ¿Qué es el purgatorio? ¿Qué es la vida eterna? ¿Cómo deberé vivir en el aquí y en el ahora para tener derecho a una vida mejor? Como adelanto, quiero decirte que este viaje no tiene fi n. Es apenas un breve itinerario, pero ten cuidado, porque necesitas ir preparado. Como equipaje, debes llevar un corazón sensible y abierto, una actitud humilde para aceptar lo que descubras durante el trayecto y una mente alejada de toda crítica, porque solo de esta manera podrás darle uso a tus nuevos ojos. Pronto estarás de regreso para continuar con la cotidianeidad de tu existencia, y tal vez, después de lanzar UNA MIRADA AL CIELO, tu corazón, tu espíritu y tu mente encontrarán el verdadero sentido de la felicidad y la clave para vivir eternamente en el paraíso, en compañía de Dios y tus seres queridos. ¿Qué esperas? ¡Acompáñame!
Author: Debra J. Blake Publisher: Duke University Press ISBN: 0822381222 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 313
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Since the 1980s Chicana writers including Gloria Anzaldúa, Cherríe Moraga, Sandra Cisneros, Ana Castillo, and Alma Luz Villanueva have reworked iconic Mexican cultural symbols such as mother earth goddesses and La Llorona (the Wailing Woman of Mexican folklore), re-imagining them as powerful female figures. After reading the works of Chicana writers who created bold, powerful, and openly sexual female characters, Debra J. Blake wondered how everyday Mexican American women would characterize their own lives in relation to the writers’ radical reconfigurations of female sexuality and gender roles. To find out, Blake gathered oral histories from working-class and semiprofessional U.S. Mexicanas. In Chicana Sexuality and Gender, she compares the self-representations of these women with fictional and artistic representations by academic-affiliated, professional intellectual Chicana writers and visual artists, including Alma M. López and Yolanda López. Blake looks at how the Chicana professional intellectuals and the U.S. Mexicana women refigure confining and demeaning constructions of female gender roles and racial, ethnic, and sexual identities. She organizes her analysis around re-imaginings of La Virgen de Guadalupe, La Llorona, indigenous Mexica goddesses, and La Malinche, the indigenous interpreter for Hernán Cortés during the Spanish conquest. In doing so, Blake reveals how the professional intellectuals and the working-class and semiprofessional women rework or invoke the female icons to confront the repression of female sexuality, limiting gender roles, inequality in male and female relationships, and violence against women. While the representational strategies of the two groups of women are significantly different and the U.S. Mexicanas would not necessarily call themselves feminists, Blake nonetheless illuminates a continuum of Chicana feminist thinking, showing how both groups of women expand lifestyle choices and promote the health and well-being of women of Mexican origin or descent.
Author: Olga Loya Publisher: august house ISBN: 9780874834970 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 196
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A bilingual collection in English and Spanish of folklore from Latin America, including Mayan and Aztec versions of the creation of the world.
Author: Alfredo Mirandé Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess ISBN: 0268202834 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 449
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This revised, second edition of The Chicano Experience offers a new interpretation of the social, cultural, and economic forces that shape the situation of Chicanos today. For more than thirty years, and now in its ninth printing, Alfredo Mirandé’s The Chicano Experience has captivated readers with its groundbreaking analysis of Chicanos in the United States. Although its original context differs markedly from the current demographic landscape, it remains no less relevant today—Latinos have emerged as the largest minority population in the United States. With updated chapters revised in light of contemporary scholarship, this second edition speaks to the Chicano of today, in addition to puertoriqueños, Central Americans, and other groups who share common experiences of colonization, racialization, and, especially in the last decade, demonization. In this foundational text, Mirandé develops a comprehensive framework for Chicano sociology that, in attending closely to Chicano experience, aims to correct the biases and misconceptions that have prevailed in the field. He demonstrates how the conventional immigrant group model of society, with its focus on assimilation into mainstream American culture, does not apply to Chicanos. Supporting this constructive proposal are analyses of Chicano social history and culture, with chapters focusing on the economy, the border, law, education, family, gender and machismo, and religion. The book concludes with a case study of community attitudes toward the police in an urban barrio. In many ways, the first edition of The Chicano Experience anticipated the sensitivity to the experiences of the underrepresented in American culture. This second edition reaffirms the prescience of Mirandé’s work and makes it available to a new generation of students and scholars of Chicano and Latino studies, ethnic and race studies, sociology, and cultural studies.
Author: Fausto Sarmiento Publisher: Berghahn Books ISBN: 1785333976 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 278
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This book presents current research in the political ecology of indigenous revival and its role in nature conservation in critical areas in the Americas. An important contribution to evolving studies on conservation of sacred natural sites (SNS), the book elucidates the complexity of development scenarios within cultural landscapes related to the appropriation of religion, environmental change in indigenous territories, and new conservation management approaches. Indigeneity and the Sacred explores how these struggles for land, rights, and political power are embedded within physical landscapes, and how indigenous identity is reconstituted as globalizing forces simultaneously threaten and promote the notion of indigeneity.
Author: Chloë Sayer
Author: Chloë Sayer
Author: Daath Gnosis
Author: Luis Lasso de la Vega
Author: Sergio A. Rodríguez Sosa
Author: Juan CáCeres Chamorro
Author: Claudia Guadalupe Olivas
Author: Debra J. Blake
Author: Olga Loya
Author: Alfredo Mirandé
Author: Fausto Sarmiento