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Introduction: The iconography of suffering -- Christ appeared : material religion and the conquest of Mexico -- Performance and penance : the Cristo and Christian evangelization -- The Cristo comes to life : lived religion in colonial Mexico City -- Repatriation : Christ comes a…
Here, Jennifer Scheper Hughes traces popular devotion to the Cristo Aparecido over five centuries of Mexican history. Each chapter investigates a single incident in the encounter between believers and the image.
Chronicles five centuries of history and devotion to the Cristo Aparecido--Christ Appeared--in Mexican culture, describing the origins of the image, and discussing individual incidents of encounters between believers and the image.