Ultra-baroque Catholicism

Multiplied images and decentered religious symbols

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2318924
AutoresRenée De La T Torres (0000-0003-3914-4805, Centro de Investigación y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, autor correspondente), Renée De La Torre (CIESAS Occidente, Mexico, autor correspondente)
Ano2016
Volume63
Fascículo2
Páginas181-196
Data de publicação2016-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSocial Compass (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0037-7686 • E-ISSN: 1461-7404
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0037768616629299
OpenAlexW2344656721
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9
Referências citadas8

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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