Holy Organ or Unholy Idol?

The Sacred Heart in the Art, Religion, and Politics of New Spain
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-38464-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 292/33, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 798 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History / Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History

Holy Organ or Unholy Idol? focuses on the significance of the cult of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and its accompanying imagery in eighteenth-century New Spain. Lauren G. Kilroy-Ewbank considers paintings, prints, devotional texts, and archival sources within the Mexican context alongside issues and debates occurring in Europe to situate the New Spanish cult within local and global developments. She examines the iconography of these religious images and frames them within broader socio-political and religious discourses related to the Eucharist, the sun, the Jesuits, scientific and anatomical ideas, and mysticism. Images of the Heart helped to champion the cult’s validity as it was attacked by religious reformers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kilroy-Ewbank, Lauren G

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen: Religiöse Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

List of Figures and Tables

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

1 Shaping the Devotion

2 Matters of the Heart

3 Reading, Meditating, Fixating

4 The Eucharistic Heart

5 Christ’s Heart as the Sacramented Sun

6 Divine Champions

7 Politicizing the Heart after 1767

Conclusion: Forming a New History of the Sacred Heart

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lauren G. Kilroy-Ewbank, Ph.D. (2009, University of California, Los Angeles), is Associate Professor of Art History at Pepperdine University. She has published articles on Spanish colonial visual culture and co-edited Visualizing Sensuous Suffering and Affective Pain in Europe and the Spanish Americas (Brill, 2018).