Ultra-baroque Catholicism

Multiplied images and decentered religious symbols

Bibliographic Data

ID2318924
AuthorsRenée De La T Torres (0000-0003-3914-4805, Centro de Investigación y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, corresponding author), Renée De La Torre (CIESAS Occidente, Mexico, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume63
Issue2
Pages181-196
Publication date2016-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Compass (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0037-7686 • E-ISSN: 1461-7404
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0037768616629299
OpenAlexW2344656721
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited8

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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