Popular Saints and Everyday Religion in Trans-National Context. A Review of Juan Javier Pescador's <em>Crossing Borders with the Santo Niño de Atocha</em> (Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 2009)

Authors

  • Martin Nesvig University of Miami

Keywords:

saints, trans-national culture, Santo Niño de Atocha

Abstract

Accompanied with personal memories and anecdotes, Juan Javier Pescador relates in his book the history of how a cult of the Santo Niño de Atocha evolved from a medieval Castilian devotion to the Virgin of Atocha, to a royally sponsored chapel in seventeenth-century Madrid, and to a trans-national Mexican and Mexican-American popular phenomenon in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Author Biography

Martin Nesvig, University of Miami

Martin Nesvig es profesor de hsitoria latinoamericana en la Universidad de Miami y autor del libro Ideology and Inquisition: The World of the Censors in Early Mexico (Yale University Press, 2009). Ha editado dos volúmenes sobre la historia social de la religion en México: Local Religion in Colonial Mexico (University of New Mexico Press, 2006) y Religious Culture in Modern Mexico (Romwan and Littlefield, 2007). Actualmente trabaja en un estudio sobre Michoacán durante el primer siglo después de la conquista, titulado “Hucksters, Orgies, Peyote and the Devil: Frontiers, Land and Religion in Early Michoacán.” Para este proyecto, ha recibido una beca del American Council of Learned Societies.

Published

2010-09-01

How to Cite

Nesvig, M. (2010). Popular Saints and Everyday Religion in Trans-National Context. A Review of Juan Javier Pescador’s <em>Crossing Borders with the Santo Niño de Atocha</em> (Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 2009). A Contracorriente: Una Revista De Estudios Latinoamericanos, 8(1), 531–539. Retrieved from https://acontracorriente.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/acontracorriente/article/view/519

Issue

Section

Reviews: Border Crossing