The Poetic Uses of Religion inThe Miraculous Day of Amalia Gómez

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ID4920168
AuthorsLuis León (0000-0002-7640-1033), Luis R León (0000-0001-7236-3394, corresponding author)
Year1999
Volume9
Issue2
Pages205-231
Publication date1999-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueReligion and American Culture A Journal of Interpretation (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1052-1151 • E-ISSN: 1533-8568
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1525/rac.1999.9.2.03a00040
OpenAlexW4237547825
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited16

It is surprising that so few historians of religions have ever tried to interpret a literary work from their own perspective.-Mircea EliadeThere are no gospels that are immortal, but neither is there any reason for believing that humanity is incapable of inventing new ones.-Emile DurkheimWas that what God expected, that ritual of more pain? She thought of Milagros. Addthisto all her miseries? Milagros yearned for less pain... . Was the old woman in veils courting something more with her crawling on bloodied knees-a miracle-by displaying her endurance for greater misery?-John RechyThe past thirty years have been a watershed in Mexican American literature, witnessing the proliferation of texts with increasingly diverse themes. For the most part, this literary production has been motivated by the impulse to narrate the stories that typify Mexican cultural history in the United States

Art · Art history · Humanity · Literature · Miracle · Poetry · Theology · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Latin American Literature Studies · Philosophy · Religion and Society in Latin America

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