Saints of Resistance: Devotions in the Philippines Under Early Spanish Rule - Hardcover

Saints of Resistance: Devotions in the Philippines Under Early Spanish Rule - Hardcover

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Saints of Resistance: Devotions in the Philippines Under Early Spanish Rule - Hardcover
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Saints of Resistance: Devotions in the Philippines Under Early Spanish Rule - Hardcover

Saints of Resistance: Devotions in the Philippines Under Early Spanish Rule - Hardcover

$191.52
$191.52

by Christina H. Lee (Author)

Eighty percent of Filipinos (about 80 million people) identify with the Catholic faith. Visitors to the Philippines might find it surprising that images of Catholic saints, the Child Christ, and the Virgin Mary can be seen in all kinds of public and private spaces throughout this Asian
country, such as in restaurants, shopping malls, pasted to walls, painted on buses, and of course, in-home altars. Many of these saints bear Spanish names and their legends almost always date to the period of Spanish colonialism.

Saints of Resistance: Devotions in the Philippines under Early Spanish Rule explores why, in spite of their fraught history with Spanish colonialism (which ended in 1898), Filipinos have staunchly held on to the faith in their saints. This is the first scholarly study to focus on the dynamic life of
saints and their devotees in the Spanish Philippines, from the sixteenth through the early part of the eighteenth century. The book offers an in-depth analysis of the origins and development of the beliefs and rituals surrounding some of the most popular saints in the Philippines, namely, Santo Niño
de Cebu, Our Lady of Caysasay, Our Lady of La Naval, and Our Lady of Antipolo. Christina Lee recovers the voices of colonized Philippine subjects as well as those of Spaniards who, through the veneration of miraculous saints, projected and relieved their grievances, anxieties, and histories of
communal suffering. Based on critical readings of primary sources, the book traces how individuals and their communities often refashioned iconographic devotions to the Holy Child and to the Virgin Mary by introducing non-Catholic elements derived from pre-Hispanic, animistic, and Chinese
traditions. Ultimately, the book reveals how Philippine natives, Chinese migrants, and Spaniards reshaped the imported devotions as expressions of dissidence, resistance, and survival.

Author Biography

Christina H. Lee is Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Princeton University.

Number of Pages: 216
Dimensions: 0.9 x 9.7 x 6.5 IN
Publication Date: September 17, 2021

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