Our Lady of the Rock : : Vision and Pilgrimage in the Mojave Desert / / Lisa M. Bitel.

For more than twenty years, Maria Paula Acuña has claimed to see the Virgin Mary, once a month, at a place called Our Lady of the Rock in the Mojave Desert of California. Hundreds of men, women, and children follow her into the desert to watch her see what they cannot. While she sees and speaks with...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2015]
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Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (200 p.) :; 29 color photographs, 40 B&W photographs
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface: Looking the Wrong Way
  • 1. Déjà Vu
  • 2. The Desert Is Wide
  • 3. The Model Visionary
  • 4. Looking Like Pilgrims
  • 5. From Witness to Visionary
  • 6. Discernment at a Distance
  • Conclusion: The Longue Durée of Christian Religious Vision
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Impressions