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Our Lady of the Exile

Diasporic Religion at a Cuban Catholic Shrine in Miami

Thomas A Tweed author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc

Published:18th Dec '97

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This is a study of Cuban-American popular Catholicism, focusing on the shrine of Our Lady of Charity in Miami, which is the sacred centre of the Cuban community in exile. Tweed uses historical and ethnographic methods to discover why the shrine attained so much importance and attracts so many visitors, and what it can tell us about larger issues of religion, identity, and place.

A pervasive level of folk piety well caught. * TLS *

ISBN: 9780195105292

Dimensions: 243mm x 163mm x 23mm

Weight: 549g

240 pages