Fighting the Modern with the Virgin Mary: The Palmarian Church

This article provides a study of the organizational development and self-understanding of the Spanish Palmarian movement that emerged from a series of Marian apparitions in the Andalusian town of Palmar de Troya beginning in 1968. Within a year the leading visionary was Clemente Domínguez, whose rec...

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1. VerfasserIn: Lundberg, Magnus 1972- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: University of Californiarnia Press 2013
In: Nova religio
Jahr: 2013, Band: 17, Heft: 2, Seiten: 40-60
weitere Schlagwörter:B Palmarian Church
B New Religious Movements
B Marian Apparitions
B Catholic Marianism
B Spain
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Zusammenfassung:This article provides a study of the organizational development and self-understanding of the Spanish Palmarian movement that emerged from a series of Marian apparitions in the Andalusian town of Palmar de Troya beginning in 1968. Within a year the leading visionary was Clemente Domínguez, whose received messages leveled severe criticism against the post-Vatican II Roman Catholic Church. In the mid-1970s, the Palmarians ordained their own priests and consecrated their own bishops; in 1978, Domínguez declared himself divinely elected pope and founded the Palmarian Church. At the beginning, Palmar de Troya was a typical apparition case, but development of apparition contents, a solid financial base, and the tumultuous relationship with the Roman Catholic Church eventually led to the founding of a separate church. From its inception, the Palmarian Church claimed that the outside world was evil, but with time it has become even more closed and exclusive.
ISSN:1541-8480
Enthält:Enthalten in: Nova religio
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1525/nr.2013.17.2.40