... fills a gap, even if the political approach to worship is already well established. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 Pious Imperialism: Spanish Rule and the Cult of Saints in Mexico City . By Cornelius Conover . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2019...

... will almost magically provide insights, wisdom, answers to age-old questions, and a trendy edge to their work. The implicit message is that one need only join the new cultural history cult to find the newest revealed truth. Indeed, the new cultural history, despite lip-service to a postmodernism...

...Grant D. Jones South and Meso-American Native Spirituality: From the Cult of the Feathered Serpent to the Theology of Liberation . Edited by Gossen Gary H. in collaboration with León-Portilla Miguel . World Spirituality: An Encyclopedic History of the Religious Quest , vol. 4...

...James Lockhart Todos Santos in Rural Tlaxcala: A Syncretic, Expressive, and Symbolic Analysis of the Cult of the Dead . By Nutini Hugo G. . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1988 . Photographs. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xv , 471 . Cloth . $75.00...

...Omer C. Stewart Anyone with a scholarly or scientific interest in the native American church (ie., the Peyote religion) should start with The Peyote Cult , by Dr. Weston La Barre. A surprising uniformity of ritual from tribe to tribe was discovered and was shown to exist along with many...

...William Madsen Teotl and Ixiptlatli. Some Central Conceptions in Ancient Mexican Religion with a General Introduction on Cult and Myth . By Hvidtfeldt Arild . Copenhagen , 1958 . Munksgaard . Bibliography. Indexes . Pp. 182 . Paper. 24 Dan. Kr . Copyright 1960 by Duke...

...Donald Warren, Jr. Spirits of the Deep: A Study of an Afro-Brazilian Cult . By Seth and Ruth Leacock . Garden City, New York , 1972 . Published for The American Museum of Natural History by Doubleday Natural History Press . Tables. Illustrations. Glossary. Bibliography. Index . Pp. x...

...James Covington The Maru Cult of the Pomo Indians: A California Ghost Dance Survival . By Meighan Clement W. and Riddell Francis A. . Foreword by Dentzel Carl Schaefer . Los Angeles, California , 1972 . Southwest Museum . Southwest Museum Papers, 23 . Tables...

...Orin Starn Peasants on the Edge: Crop, Cult, and Crisis in the Andes . By Mitchell William P. . Austin : University of Texas Press , 1991 . Photographs. Tables. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index . x , 264 pp. Cloth . $30.00 . Copyright 1993 by Duke University Press...

...Rebecca Earle Heroes and Hero Cults in Latin America . Edited by Brunk Samuel and Fallaw Ben . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2006 . Photographs. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index . viii , 318 pp. Cloth , $55.00 . Paper , $22.95 . Copyright 2009 by Duke...

...Patricia A. McAnany Patron Gods and Patron Lords: The Semiotics of Classic Maya Community Cults . By Baron Joanne P. . Boulder : University Press of Colorado , 2016 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Figures. Tables. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. xvi, 227 pp. Cloth , $52.00...

...Franklin W. Knight The Great Father and the Danger: Religious Cults, Material Forces, and Collective Fantasies in the World of the Surinamese Maroons . By Thoden van Velzen H. U. E. and van Wetering W. . Leiden : Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology , 1988...

... and analyses of the two other pilgrimages: that of Justo Juez, which now replaces the tinkuy previously held at the same site, and that of Wank’a, distinguished by the large fair held there at the same time. Of most interest in two ethnographic chapters is the attention Sallnow gives the Cult...

... protest that have weakened the PRI in the last 20 years. Although The Myth of the Revolution will be of interest to students of twentieth-century Mexico, it is not a significant contribution. The Myth of the Revolution: Hero Cults and the Institutionalization of the Mexican State, 1920-1940...

...Roger Abrahams Religious Cults of the Caribbean: Trinidad, Jamaica, and Haiti . By Simpson George Eaton . Foreword by Mathews Thomas . Rev. ed. Río Piedras, Puerto Rico , 1970 . Institute of Caribbean Studies, University of Puerto Rico . Caribbean Monograph Series, 7 . Tables...

... as the “pious” or the “faithful”—were strongly influenced by the Santa Teresa cult. Yet while the cult was widespread, the revolt was unique. Even pueblos that shared many of Tomóchic’s grievances—for “Tomóchic in essence resembled other pueblos in the valley”—failed to stir (pp. 129-30). Protests occurred...

... of imperial Spain. After the expulsion of the Jesuits, which was the first phase of the incipient anticlerical program of Charles III and Charles IV, the Quetzalcóatl-Guadalupe cults fell into the hands of parish priests in the countryside. During the crisis of 1810 those warrior-priests molded...

... are problematic. First, he argues that the “popular Catholic ‘socialization’ of the saint into the family has also extended to the organization of the cult, distinguishing it from other saint cults” (p. 137). Since Kristensen provides no comparative analysis of other widespread saint cults, the reader is unable...

... © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 Rebeca Villalobos Álvarez's El culto a Juárez is a lucid, innovative, and closely reasoned analysis of the rhetoric around the figure of Benito Juárez during the century after his death. Three extensive chapters cover the history of the cult, a rhetorical...

... edition of the book. Although the debate quickly descended to the level of personal recrimination, it was important in that it brought the cult of Bolívar to the surface in Venezuelan intellectual circles. This cult, a familiar manifestation of the next two decades, was, of course, a reflection...