Holy organ or unholy idol? : : the Sacred Heart in the art, religion, and politics of New Spain / / by Lauren G. Kilroy-Ewbank.

Holy Organ or Unholy Idol? focuses on the significance of the cult of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and its accompanying imagery in eighteenth-century New Spain. Lauren G. Kilroy-Ewbank considers paintings, prints, devotional texts, and archival sources within the Mexican context alongside issues and de...

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Superior document:Brill's studies in intellectual history,
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2018.
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v, 292.
Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; v. 33.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Notes:Outgrowth of the author's thesis (Ph.D.--University of California, Los Angeles, 2009) under the title: Dissecting bodies, creating cults : imagery of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in New Spain.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright page
  • Acknowledgments
  • Figures and Tables
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Shaping the Devotion
  • Matters of the Heart
  • Reading, Meditating, Fixating
  • The Eucharistic Heart
  • Christ’s Heart as the Sacramented Sun
  • Divine Champions
  • Politicizing the Heart after 1767
  • Conclusion: Forming a New History of the Sacred Heart
  • Back Matter
  • Bibliography
  • Index.