Ultra-baroque Catholicism: Multiplied images and decentered religious symbols
This article addresses the effects of the mass production of religious images that is decentering the institutional management of Catholic symbols in Mexico. How do mass production and the global circulation of religious images in various types of media create new ways of practicing religion and pro...
| Published in: | Social compass |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
[2016]
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| In: |
Social compass
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Mexico
/ Catholicism
/ Symbol
/ Copying
/ Spread of
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion CD Christianity and Culture KBR Latin America KDB Roman Catholic Church |
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| Summary: | This article addresses the effects of the mass production of religious images that is decentering the institutional management of Catholic symbols in Mexico. How do mass production and the global circulation of religious images in various types of media create new ways of practicing religion and professing faith today? In the search for answers to this question, two cases are presented. The first, Catholic baroque as a popular initiative, addresses the mass production of Catholic icons and how it deinstitutionalizes Catholic symbols. In the second, the case of the Mayan prophesy for 2012, the manner in which cultural industries are generating transmedia beliefs is revealed. The author argues that the synergy between popular baroque religiosity and the videocracy creates a new sort of ultra-baroque Catholicism based on superimposing images. |
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| ISSN: | 1461-7404 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Social compass
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0037768616629299 |