This is the first and only comprehensive work to deal with a relatively unknown facet of Mexican social and religious history, the debates over the historicity
"Theologies of Guadalupe examines theological writings about Mexico's most renowned religious tradition from the colonial era to the present. It also explores h
For decades, Stafford Poole has stood at the forefront of scholarship on the historicity of the Virgin of Guadalupe, an icon that serves as one of the most impo
Juan Diego, to whom the Virgin Mary appeared in 1531 miraculously imprinting her likeness on his cape, was canonised in Mexico in 2002 by Pope John Paul II. In
The foundation legend of the Mexican devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe is one of the most appealing and beloved of all religious stories. In this volume, editor