Abstract

COSTILLA, Julia. BACKSTAGE OF CATHOLIC SANCTUARIES: CREATORS OF SYMBOLS, MERCALES AND WORSHIPSIN LATIN AMERICA (BETWEEN COLONIAL TIMES AND XXTH CENTURY). Relaciones [online]. 2021, vol.46, n.2, pp.111-120. ISSN 0325-2221.

This paper comparatively addresses the emergence of three Latin-American Catholic sanctuaries: Virgen de Copacabana and Señor de los Milagros de Lima, both of colonial origin(Peruvian Viceroyalty), and Virgen del Rosario of San Nicolás (Argentina, since 1983). Usingan anthropological perspective, through archive research with an ethnographic approach, theprimary actions and motivations that helped consolidate these sanctuaries are analyzed. Whowere the material and symbolic producers of these Catholic images and in which circumstancesdid they act? How did they become places of devotion? Which was the role of the miracles incult consolidation? I will examine the possibility of recognizing regularities and common logicsin these processes, analyzing to what extent they express either contextual factors or Catholicsanctuaries typical dynamics.

Keywords : sanctuaries; catholic cults; religious symbols; miracles; Latin America.

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