An ancient Oaxacan icon sheds light on the modern meaning of pilgrimage. Review: Devotion in Motion: Pilgrimage in Modern Mexico, Edward Wright-Ríos, 2025, University of Chicago Press
Categories: Mexico
Tag: Religion
The radical rite
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Liberation theology did not die on the cross and has new martyrs to revere. Liberation Theology and Praxis in Contemporary Latin America: As It Was in the Beginning? Pablo Bradbury and Niall HD Geraghty (eds), 2025, University of London Press
Categories: Argentina, Brazil, Central America, Colombia, El Salvador, Nicaragua, South America
The helpful dead
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Two books about death. The Intimacy of Images: Saints, Death, and Devotion to La Santa Muerte in Oaxaca, Myriam Lamrani, 2025, University of Texas Press; Moved by the Dead: Haunting and Devotion in São Paulo, Brazil, Michael Amoruso, 2025, University of North Carolina Press
Categories: Brazil, Mexico, North America, South America
Indigenous enigma
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A book on colonial art reveals hybrid secrets. Maya Christian Murals of Early Modern Yucatán, Amara Solari and Linda K Williams, 2024, University of Texas Press
Categories: Mexico, North America
Love in a time of revolution
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Love and Despair: How Catholic Activism Shaped Politics and the Counterculture in Modern Mexico, Jaime M Pensado, 2023, University of California Press
Categories: Mexico, North America, United States
Catholic Cold War threatens hellfire
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Latin Americans have paid a high price for conservative opposition to progress in the Church
Categories: Argentina, Central America, El Salvador, North America, South America, United States
The saint who haunts an empire
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By tracing the plot to kill Óscar Romero and those involved, Matt Eisenbrandt adds to the pressure on the US to make amends for its role propping up El Salvador’s murderous regime
Categories: Central America, El Salvador, North America, United States
Know your oppression
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Liberation theologian Otto Maduro invoked the oppressed to use knowledge against injustice
Categories: North America, South America, United States, Venezuela
A state of ambivalence
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Relations between Mexico’s state and the Church in the decades following the Revolution were much more complex than many histories have given us to believe
Categories: Mexico, North America
Spirit level
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John Lynch’s exceptional history of religion in Latin America and the Caribbean explores the millennial tension between tradition and modernity
Categories: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Caribbean, Central America, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, North America, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, South America, Uruguay, Venezuela