Journal articles: 'Miraculous images'

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Holmes, Megan. "Miraculous Images in Renaissance Florence." Art History 34, no. 3 (May 19, 2011): 432–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8365.2011.00833.x.

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Liutikas, Darius. "In search of miracles: pilgrimage to the miraculous places." Tourism Review 70, no. 3 (August 17, 2015): 197–213. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/tr-08-2013-0046.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss various aspects of the development of the places of apparitions and miraculous images, motives and behavioral characteristics of pilgrims coming to the miraculous places of the Virgin Mary in Lithuania. Design/methodology/approach – The paper reviews literature about miraculous events and presents miraculous places in Lithuania (apparition places of the Virgin Mary and sites of miraculous images). Various classifications are applied. Pilgrims ' motivation and behavioral aspects are analyzed based on the quantitative survey. Findings – The research showed that the main motives of religious pilgrims visiting miraculous places were asking for God’s grace, health, expressing gratitude to Jesus or Virgin Mary as well as spiritual quest and renewal. These places attract pilgrims who want to solve different problems in their life or to recover from illnesses. Religious pilgrimage has different forms and rituals, and constitutes different models of the specific behavior. During the journey, pilgrims perform various religious practices such as praying, singing hymns, kissing the relics, etc. The grouping of devotional rituals performed during the pilgrimage and at the destination place is presented. Originality/value – The paper is important to the researchers of pilgrimage and religious tourism. For the first time, miraculous places of Lithuania are analyzed in the broader international context. Classifications of the miraculous sites indicate various aspects of the development of these places. Motives and behavioral characteristics of pilgrims enable to better understand the multidimensional reality of religious pilgrimage.

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Kibler Maxwell, Andrea. "Saints, Miracles and the Image: Healing Saints and Miraculous Images in the Renaissance." Contemporaneity: Historical Presence in Visual Culture 8 (October 30, 2019): 119–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/contemp.2019.290.

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Book Review: Sandra Cardarelli and Laura Fenelli, eds., Saints, Miracles and the Image: Healing Saints and Miraculous Images in the Renaissance. Tournhout: Brepols, 2017. 318pp; 87 color ills.; 30 b/w ills. Hardcover €120.00 (9782503568188)

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Fedosov, Denis. "Miraculous Images in Spain and Russia. A Comparative Study." Memoria y Civilización 20 (December 2017): 215–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.15581/001.20.215-226.

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Mayer, Alicia. "William B. Taylor, Theatre of a Thousand Wonders. A History of Miraculous Images and Shrines in New Spain, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2016." Estudios de Historia Novohispana, no. 59 (May 31, 2019): 212. http://dx.doi.org/10.22201/iih.24486922e.2018.59.66427.

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Norget, Kristin. "Miraculous Images and Votive Offerings in Mexico. By Frank Graziano." Journal of the American Academy of Religion 84, no. 3 (July 1, 2016): 847–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfw060.

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Young, Julia. "Miraculous Images and Votive Offerings in Mexico - by Graziano, Frank." Bulletin of Latin American Research 37, no. 1 (January 2018): 118–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/blar.12731.

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Turner, Nigel E., Barry Fritz, and Masood Zangeneh. "Images of gambling in film." Journal of Gambling Issues, no. 20 (June 1, 2007): 117. http://dx.doi.org/10.4309/jgi.2007.20.3.

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This article examines the depiction of gambling in recent films. Often gambling is portrayed either very positively or very negatively. The authors found eight overlapping themes represented in these movies: (1) pathological gambling, (2) the magical skill of the professional gambler, (3) miraculous wins as happy endings, (4) gamblers are suckers, (5) gamblers cheat, (6) gambling is run by organized crime, (7) the casino heist, and (8) gambling as a symbolic backdrop to the story. These themes suggest that the portrayal of gambling in movies has a number of interesting distortions. The discussion centres on how these distortions have an impact on efforts to accurately disseminate information about gambling to the general public.

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Garnett, Jane, and Gervase Rosser. "Miraculous Images and the Sanctification of Urban Neighborhood in Post-Medieval Italy." Journal of Urban History 32, no. 5 (July 2006): 729–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0096144206287096.

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Choi, Sun-Ah. "Medieval Chinese Miraculous Images in Their Historical Context - Legend, Form, and Text." Journal of Buddhist Art 25 (March 31, 2018): 7–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.36620/bms.2018.25.1.

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Taylor, William. "Our Lady in the Kernel of Corn, 1774." Americas 59, no. 4 (April 2003): 559–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tam.2003.0059.

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Marian apparitions and miraculous images in Mexico inevitably bring to mind one renowned figure — Our Lady of Guadalupe and its shrine at Tepeyac in the Valley of Mexico. Guadalupe is, indeed, a touchstone to the history of Catholicism and popular devotion in Mexico, and Mexico is a special case of a religious image becoming the main symbol for an emerging nation. As Jeannette Rodríguez recently wrote, “To be of Mexican descent is to recognize the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe.” But devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe has a history. This image has not always been, and in some ways still is not, the dominant symbol throughout Mexico, and the location of its principal shrine on the edge of Mexico City is as much a key to its importance as is its association with the oldest Marian apparition officially recognized by the Catholic Church. Dozens of different shrines to other miraculous images have captured the hearts of thousands, sometimes millions of followers in Mexico. They still do.

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Kaminska, Barbara A. "Picturing Miracles: Biblical Healings in the Paintings by Pieter Aertsen and Joachim Beuckelaer." Explorations in Renaissance Culture 45, no. 2 (November 7, 2019): 140–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/23526963-04502003.

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In this essay, I analyze three sixteenth-century Netherlandish paintings of New Testament miraculous healings in the context of the contemporary understanding of miracles and approaches to disability. I argue that, in contrast to the negative perception of the infirm in the early modern literature, the images promote care for the sick as a Christian duty. Given the complicated theological status of miracles ca. 1600, scriptural healings begin to function primarily as exempla of mercy rather than as promises of supernatural intervention. In the discussed compositions, biblical stories become a model for sixteenth-century viewers through the rhetorical use of architectural backdrops, which replicate a strategy employed in the vernacular theatre and urban festivals. Finally, I show that this connection between miraculous healings and mercy is also established in the iconography of visiting the sick, in which broadly defined medical care is introduced as a manifestation of charity.

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Gizzi, Ferdinando. "Photographing a miraculous apparition in fin-de-siècle France." Magic, Vol. 5, no. 1 (2020): 28–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.47659/m8.028.art.

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This paper is dedicated to the photographic coverage of the alleged miraculous apparitions, which occurred in the small French village of Tilly-sur-Seulles between 1896 and 1897. These photos, circulated as postcards and appearing in popular magazines of the time such as L’Illustration and Le Monde illustré, were presented – by virtue of the authority of the photographic as an indexical trace – as “authentic” testimonials of the supernatural events, though in fact neither recognized nor approved by the Catholic Church. These photographs used the already-known double exposure process of spirit photography, bringing these exotic visual materials into the tradition of religious “authentic fakes”. But more importantly, such images manifested the “visionary fervour” of late nineteenth-century France, that is, the growing desire of the modern crowd to see the invisible in more and more spectacular and convincing ways. Such a new spectatorial desire – that can also be found in the very successful genre of the photographs of the real bodies of mystics, saints, and seers – would be perfected by a whole series of contemporary forms and attractions, and finally, by cinematographic special effects. Keywords: nineteenth century, Marian apparitions, visionaries, photography, superimposition

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González, Cristina Cruz. "Shrines and miraculous images religious life in mexico before the reforma, Taylor, William B." Material Religion 8, no. 2 (June 2012): 258–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.2752/175183412x13346797480952.

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Cuadriello, Jaime. "sobre William B. Taylor, Shrines and Miraculous Images. Religious Life in Mexico Before the Reforma." Estudios de Historia Novohispana, no. 47 (February 26, 2013): 227. http://dx.doi.org/10.22201/iih.24486922e.2012.47.36091.

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Wright-Rios, Edward. "Theater of a Thousand Wonders: A History of Miraculous Images and Shrines in New Spain." Ethnohistory 66, no. 2 (April 1, 2019): 399–400. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00141801-7300258.

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Fallena, Denise. "Theater of a thousand wonders. A history of miraculous images and shrines in New Spain." Colonial Latin American Review 28, no. 2 (April 3, 2019): 290–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10609164.2019.1628533.

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Cavazos-Gonzalez, G. "Shrines and Miraculous Images: Religious Life in Mexico before the Reforma. By William B. Taylor." Journal of the American Academy of Religion 80, no. 1 (January 12, 2012): 244–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfr108.

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Gross, Toomas. "Shrines and Miraculous Images: Religious Life in Mexico Before the Reforma - by William B. Taylor." Bulletin of Latin American Research 32, no. 2 (March 1, 2013): 224–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/blar.12032.

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Fais, Oxana D. "MIRACLES IN THE TRADITIONAL FOLK CULTURE OF SICILY AND SARDINIA. IMAGES AND PRACTICES." Studia Religiosa Rossica: Russian Journal of Religion, no. 3 (2020): 68–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.28995/2658-4158-2020-3-68-91.

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This is an anthropological study of the concepts of miracles and the miraculous, and the practices that have developed around them, in two regions of Italy – Sicily and Sardinia. The article is written primarily on ethnographic material collected by the author in 2017–2020, as well as on published descriptions of the individual and collective knowledge of “experiencing a miracle”. The article analyzes the “disposition” of the inhabitants of the regions under study to the occurrence of a miracle, the range of manifestations and “range” of miracles, harbingers of the phenomenon of a miracle, the polymorphism wonders, their symbolism and functionality, the place and role of Christian part of the miracle, the psycho-emotional aspect of meeting it, the nature of “miracle”, its source and various other factors.

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Fernández-Salvador, Carmen. "Images and Landscape: The (Dis)ordering of Colonial Territory (Quito in the Eighteenth Century)." Arts 10, no. 2 (June 10, 2021): 36. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/arts10020036.

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This article explores the role played by images of the Virgin Mary in the ordering of space during the colonial period, as well as in the disruption of such order as a gesture of resistance by subordinate groups. In the Real Audiencia de Quito of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, civil and religious authorities used miraculous images of the Virgin Mary as aids in the founding of reducciones, which assured the imposition of Christian civility upon the Native population. Legal records suggest that in the second half of the eighteenth century Indigenous communities deployed similar strategies as a means of asserting their own concerns. Native actors physically manipulated Marian images in times of conflict, moving them around or apprehending them either to legitimize their desertion of colonial settlements or to resist forced relocation. In both the early colonial period and in the eighteenth century, the key strategy of shaping sacred landscapes was implemented in both Andean and Christian traditions.

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Pereira, Diana. "“Like a doll …”." Religion and the Arts 24, no. 5 (December 16, 2020): 517–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685292-02405003.

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Abstract In the 1990s there was a growing and renewed interest on the practice of clothing images of saints after, as Richard Trexler put it, the negligence demonstrated towards it by art historians until then. In 2018, following the publication of new and unprejudiced studies about it, the presence of two dresses belonging to statues of the Virgin Mary in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination” testified to the impact clothed images had on fashion creators and, according to David Morgan, the Church’s ritual and performative life. While focusing on the miraculous image of Nossa Senhora da Lapa from Quintela, Portugal, this article aims to acknowledge the many roles played by its clothes and jewels, assessing the complexity of this phenomenon and aiming for a wider understanding of how the faithful engaged with devotional sculpture.

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Deaver, William. "Bierce, Bioy Casares, and Borges: The Mirrors and Labyrinths of Intertextuality." Theory in Action 13, no. 4 (October 31, 2020): 16–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.3798/tia.1937-0237.2047.

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This article analyzes the intersection of works by Ambrose Bierce, Adolfo Bioy Casares, and Jorge Luis Borges as mirror images of themes and descriptions in describing a miraculous occurrence, albeit only in the labyrinthine mind of the protagonist, often categorized within the genre of the fantastic. The article’s intertextual approach focuses on sensorial perceptions that only grant validity to an internal reality (what the mind interprets) rather than to an external reality (what the eyes see). All three works in this study are concerned with a criminal condemned to death who seeks to prolong his life. The protagonists have similar responses, although their motivations are different.

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Burdette, Derek. "Divinity and decay: the narrative of miraculous renovation and the repair of sacred images in colonial Mexico." Colonial Latin American Review 25, no. 3 (July 2, 2016): 351–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10609164.2016.1227633.

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Ritchie, John. "Theorizing Economic Miracles." Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics 5, no. 1 (January 1994): 11–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/02601079x9400500103.

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Economies are socially constructed phenomena, but the idea of economic miracles, once redeemed from modernist doubt, certainly surprises and puzzles more than most. Both highly politically prized, and considered the spur behind worldscale change, such miracles enjoy exceptionally good press, and carry their appeal right through into everyday life with richly suggestive images about miraculous nations, industries, firms, technologies, products, and ‘entrepreneurial’ leader figures. Yet they remain perpetual philosophical puzzles which, despite first confounding established worldviews, stay difficult to fully demonstrate, prove, and explain along recognized lines thereafter. Key arguments over whether, where, and how they ever arise, what form and course they take, and whether they are reproducible elsewhere are therefore difficult to decipher and resolve without the guiding theorizations outlined here.

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Martin, Dan. "Pearls From Bones: Relics, Chortens, Tertons and the Signs of Saintly Death in Tibet." Numen 41, no. 3 (1994): 273–324. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156852794x00157.

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AbstractAlthough there has been much work, in recent years, on the sacrum of Christianity, and some important studies have appeared on Buddhist relic cults and related facets of Buddhism, so far very little has been written on Tibetan Buddhist relics. This paper, while offering some material for a historical perspective, mainly seeks to find a larger cultural pattern for understanding the interrelationships of a complex of factors active in Tibetan religious culture. Beginning with problems of relic-related terms and classifications, we then suggest a new assessment of the role of the Terton ('treasure revealer'). Then we discuss 'miracles' in Tibet, and the intersection of categories of 'signs of saintly death' and relics. Much of the remaining pages are devoted to those items that fall within both categories, specifically the 'pearls' that emerge miraculously from saintly remains and images that appear in bodily or other substances connected with cremations. After looking at a number of testimonials on these miraculous relics, we examine the possibility that these items might be 'deceitfully manufactured', looking at a few Tibetan polemical writings which raise this possibility. In the conclusion, we suggest that there are some critical links between three spheres of Tibetan religiosity: 1. sacrum which are not relics, 2. relics, and 3. signs of sainthood. Finally, we recommend an approach to religious studies that takes its point of departure in actual practices, and particularly the objects associated with popular devotional practice.

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Rowe, Erin Kathleen. "Theater of a Thousand Wonders: A History of Miraculous Images and Shrines in New Spain by William B. Taylor." Bulletin of the Comediantes 69, no. 2 (2017): 209–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/boc.2017.0049.

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Rosser, Gervase. "Theater of a Thousand Wonders: A History of Miraculous Images and Shrines in New Spain, by William B. Taylor." English Historical Review 133, no. 565 (October 4, 2018): 1613–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cey299.

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Ryzhakova, Svetlana I. "PRATIMĀ, MIRACULOUS IMAGES AND THEIR USAGE. MATERIALS OF THE ETHNOGRAPHIC EXPEDITION TO UTTARANCHAL (NOW UTTARKHAND, NORTHERN INDIA), 2004 COLLECTION." Studia Religiosa Rossica: Russian Journal of Religion, no. 1 (2021): 141–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.28995/2658-4158-2021-1-141-153.

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The article presents and analyzes a collection of votive items called pratima, collected by the author in the Garhwal district of the north- Indian state of Uttarkhand (India) in 2004. Their main functions are revealed. A classification of available items is proposed.

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Bayo, Juan Carlos. "Anna Russakoff, Imagining the Miraculous: Miraculous Images of the Virgin Mary in French Illuminated Manuscripts, ca. 1250-ca. 1450. Studies and Texts, 215; Text Image Context: Studies in Medieval Manuscript Illumination, 7. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2019, xviii, 194 pp., ill." Mediaevistik 32, no. 1 (January 1, 2020): 541–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.3726/med.2019.01.162.

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This monograph deals with illuminated manuscripts created in French-speaking regions from the mid-thirteenth to the mid-fifteenth century, i.e., from the earliest narratives of Marian miracles written in <?page nr="542"?>Old French to the codices produced at the Burgundian court at the waning of the Middle Ages. Its focus, however, is very specific: it is a systematic analysis of the miniatures depicting both material representations of the Virgin (mainly sculptures, but also icons, panel paintings, altarpieces or reliquaries) and the miracles performed by them, usually as Mary’s reaction to a prayer (or an insult) to one of Her images.

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Blair, Sheila. "Invoking the Prophet Muhammad through Word, Sound, and Image." Religion and the Arts 20, no. 1-2 (2016): 29–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685292-02001003.

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Objects associated with the practice of the Muslim faith are often inscribed with Qurʾanic verses specifically chosen to reflect their spiritual functions and project the piety of the patrons who ordered them and the believers who used them. This essay focuses on one such Qurʾanic passage: the invocation of the Prophet Muhammad in Qurʾan 33: 56, a verse saying that God and His angels bless the Prophet and that believers should bless him too and give him greetings of peace. The article analyses the use of this verse on buildings and objects of various media in five different places from early Islamic to pre-modern times to show how words, sounds, and images could be used to elaborate different aspects of Muhammad’s persona, ranging from his unique position as beautiful model to his roles as intercessor, miracle-worker, and protagonist in the miraculous night journey and ascension.

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Li, Wen-Juan, Jun Wang, Zheng-Hai Huang, Ting Zhang, and Daniel K. Du. "LBP-like feature based on Gabor wavelets for face recognition." International Journal of Wavelets, Multiresolution and Information Processing 15, no. 05 (August 28, 2017): 1750049. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0219691317500497.

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The robust feature extraction method for face representation is an important issue in face recognition. In this paper, we extract a new kind of feature through applying the idea of local binary pattern (LBP) into the resulted sub-images of Gabor transform. The new feature, i.e. Gabor-LBP-Like (GLLBP), together with its extension methods (1) overcome the drawback of losing information after Gabor transform’s down-sampling; (2) are insensitive to noise, compared with the LBP feature extracted from the original face image; and (3) are robust to image variation, especially occlusion and illumination changes when compared with other existing features combined LBP and Gabor transform. To validate the effectiveness of these features, we do experiments on the ORL, FERET, Georgia Tech and LFW facial databases. The numerical results show that GLLBP and its extensions are miraculous features for face recognition.

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Ramírez, Paul, and William B. Taylor. "Out of Tlatelolco’s Ruins: Patronage, Devotion, and Natural Disaster at the Shrine of Our Lady of the Angels, 1745–1781." Hispanic American Historical Review 93, no. 1 (February 1, 2013): 33–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00182168-1902706.

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Abstract Colonial inhabitants of Mexico City were accustomed to coping with natural disasters, including disease epidemics, droughts, floods, and earthquakes, which menaced rich and poor alike and stirred fervent devotion to miraculous images and their shrines. This article revisits the late colonial history of the shrine of Our Lady of the Angels, an image preserved miraculously on an adobe wall in the Indian quarter of Santiago Tlatelolco. The assumption has been that archiepiscopal authorities aiming to deflect public worship toward a more austere, interior spirituality suppressed activities there after 1745 because they saw the devotion as excessively Indian and Baroque. The shrine has served as a barometer of eighteenth-century Bourbon reforms even though its story has not been fully told. This article explores the politics of patronage in the years after the shrine’s closure and in the decades prior to the arrival on the scene of a new Spanish patron in 1776, revealing that Indian caretakers kept the faith well beyond the official intervention, with some help from well-placed Spanish devotees and officials. The efforts of the new patron, a Spanish tailor from the city center, to renovate the building and image and secure the necessary permissions and privileges helped transform the site into one of the most famous in the capital. Attention to earlier patterns of patronage and to the social response to a series of tremors that coincided with his promotional efforts helps to explain why a devotion so carefully managed for enlightened audiences was nevertheless cut from old cloth.

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Pereira, Diana. "Healing Touch: Clothed Images of the Virgin in Early Modern Portugal." Ikonotheka, no. 29 (September 16, 2020): 51–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.31338/2657-6015ik.29.7.

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Over the last decades there was a growing interest in religious materiality, miraculous images, votive practices, and how the faithful engaged with devotional art, as well as a renewed impetus to discuss the long-recognized association between sculpture and touch, after the predominance of the visuality approach. Additionally, the neglected phenomenon of clothing statues has also been increasingly explored. Based on the reading of Santuario Mariano (1707–1723), written by Friar Agostinho de Santa Maria (1642–1728), this paper will closely examine those topics. Besides producing a monumental catalogue of Marian shrines and pilgrimage sites, this source offers a unique insight into the religious experience and the reciprocal relationship between image and devotee in Early Modern Portugal, and is a particularly rich source when describing the believers’ pursuit of physical contact with sculptures. This yearning for proximity is partly explained by the belief in the healing power of Marian sculptures, which in turn seemed to be conveniently transferred to a myriad of objects. When contact with the images themselves was not possible, devotees sought out their clothes, crowns, rosary beads, metric relics, and so forth. Items of clothing such as mantles and veils were particularly used and so it seems obvious they were not mere adornments or donations, but also mediums and extensions of the sculptures’ presence and power. By focusing on the thaumaturgic role of the statues’ clothes and jewels, I will argue how the practice of dressing sculptures was due to much more than stylistic desires or processional needs and draw attention to the many ways believers engaged with religious art in Early Modern Portugal.

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Wargula, Carolyn. "Embodied Objects: Chūjōhime’s Hair Embroideries and the Transformation of the Female Body in Premodern Japan." Religions 12, no. 9 (September 15, 2021): 773. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel12090773.

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The female body in medieval Japanese Buddhist texts was characterized as unenlightened and inherently polluted. While previous scholarship has shown that female devotees did not simply accept and internalize this exclusionary ideology, we do not fully understand the many creative ways in which women sidestepped the constraints of this discourse. One such method Japanese women used to expand their presence and exhibit their agency was through the creation of hair-embroidered Buddhist images. Women bundled together and stitched their hair into the most sacred parts of the image—the deity’s hair or robes and Sanskrit seed-syllables—as a means to accrue merit for themselves or for a loved one. This paper focuses on a set of embroidered Japanese Buddhist images said to incorporate the hair of Chūjōhime (753?CE–781?CE), a legendary aristocratic woman credited with attaining rebirth in Amida’s Pure Land. Chūjōhime’s hair embroideries served to show that women’s bodies could be transformed into miraculous materiality through corporeal devotional practices and served as evidence that women were capable of achieving enlightenment. This paper emphasizes materiality over iconography and practice over doctrine to explore new insights into Buddhist gendered ritual practices and draws together critical themes of materiality and agency in ways that resonate across cultures and time periods.

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Stern, Dieter. "The Making of a Marian Geography of Grace for Greek Catholics in the Polish Crownlands of the 17th–18th Centuries." Religions 12, no. 6 (June 16, 2021): 446. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel12060446.

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This article explores the ways in which the newly founded and highly contested Christian confession of the Greek Catholics or Uniates employed strategies of mass mobilization to establish and maintain their position within a contested confessional terrain. The Greek Catholic clerics, above all monks of the Basilian order fostered an active policy of acquiring, founding and promoting Marian places of grace in order to create and invigorate a sense of belonging among their flock. The article argues that folk ideological notions concerning the spatial and physical conditions for the working of miracles were seized upon by the Greek Catholic faithful to establish a mental map of grace of their own. Especially, the Basilian order took particular care to organize mass events (annual pilgrimages, coronation celebrations for miraculous images) and promote Marian devotion through miracle reports and icon songs in an attempt to define what it means to be a Greek Catholic in terms of sacred territoriality.

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Dekoninck, Ralph. "Between denial and exaltation: The materials of the miraculous images of the Virgin in the Southern Netherlands during the seventeenth century." Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art / Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 62, no. 1 (2012): 148–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22145966-06201007.

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Lavrin, Asunción. "Marvels and Miracles in Late Colonial Mexico: Three Texts in ContextShrines and Miraculous Images: Religious Life in Mexico Before the Reforma." Hispanic American Historical Review 92, no. 3 (August 1, 2012): 557–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00182168-1600479.

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Ritchey, Sara. "Saints, Miracles and the Image: Healing Saints and Miraculous Images in the Renaissance. Sandra Cardarelli and Laura Fenelli, eds. Turnhout: Brepols, 2017. iv + 318 pp. €120." Renaissance Quarterly 73, no. 1 (2020): 230–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2019.508.

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Sarat, Leah. "Miraculous Images and Votive Offerings in Mexico. By Frank Graziano . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. xiii + 366 pp. $99.00 cloth; $35.00 paper." Church History 86, no. 1 (March 2017): 272–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0009640717000440.

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Burkhart, Louise M. "Shrines and Miraculous Images: Religious Life in Mexico Before the Reforma; Marvels and Miracles in Late Colonial Mexico: Three Texts in Context." Colonial Latin American Review 22, no. 2 (August 2013): 294–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10609164.2013.808476.

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Kapaló, James. "‘She Read Me a Prayer and I Read It Back to Her’: Gagauz Women, Miraculous Literacy and the Dreaming of Charms." Religion and Gender 4, no. 1 (February 19, 2014): 3–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18785417-00401002.

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This paper explores the polyvalent and gendered nature of the relationship between the practices of reading and charming and the Mother of God in the dream narratives of Gagauz women in the Republic of Moldova. The most widespread healing text used by this Orthodox Christian minority, The Dream of the Mother of God, is paradigmatic of this relationship being the principle ‘site’ where images of and beliefs about healing and dreaming meet with women’s reading and writing practices. Women’s knowledge of reading and charming constitutes dangerous knowledge and their dream narratives of literacy and healing represent an important way in which gender and identity are performed by this group of women. I argue here that although dreams with the Mother of God and her text represent transgressions of patriarchal religious boundaries, their ability to contribute to the reimagining or renegotiation of gendered social roles for these women is limited.

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Mariner, Wendy K. "Slouching Toward Managed Care Liability: Reflections on Doctrinal Boundaries, Paradigm Shifts, and Incremental Reform." Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 29, no. 3-4 (2001): 253–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-720x.2001.tb00347.x.

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Following the seemingly endless debate over managed care liability, I cannot suppress thoughts of Yeats’s poem, “The Second Coming.” It is not the wellknown phrase, “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold,” that comes to mind; although that could describe the feeling of a health-care system unraveling. The poem’s depiction of lost innocence — “The best lack all conviction, while the worst/Are full of passionate intensity” — does not allude to the legislature, the industry, the public, or the medical or legal profession. What resonates is the poem’s evocation of humanity’s cyclical history of expectation and disappointment, with ideas as grand as justice and occupations as pedestrian as managed care. Writing in 1919, Yeats described the end of an era with images of war’s destructive forces. The poem expresses a universal desire for some miraculous rebirth or resolution of all problems: “Surely some revelation is at hand.” But instead, the brutish Sphinx-like creature emerges, possibly the Antichrist. New gods displace old gods in the cycle of civilization, and man must muddle on.

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Krippner, James. "Shrines and Miraculous Images: Religious Life in Mexico before the Reforma. By William B. Taylor. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2011. Pp. iv, 288. Images, Maps, Bibliography, Index. $37.95 cloth." Americas 70, no. 01 (July 2013): 133–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003161500003151.

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Krippner, James. "Shrines and Miraculous Images: Religious Life in Mexico before the Reforma. By William B. Taylor. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2011. Pp. iv, 288. Images, Maps, Bibliography, Index. $37.95 cloth." Americas 70, no. 1 (July 2013): 133–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tam.2013.0066.

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Burdick, Catherine. "Served on a Plate: Engraved Sources of San Diego de Alcalá’s ‘Miraculous Meal’ for the Franciscans of Santiago, Chile (ca. 1710)." Arts 10, no. 2 (April 29, 2021): 30. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/arts10020030.

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There exists a consensus in academic literature regarding the centrality of engraved prototypes for the production of colonial paintings in the Spanish Americas. In Peru, these artistic models were written into legal contracts between painters and clients. An examination of the notarial contracts produced in Cusco from 1650 to 1700 suggests that prototypes in a variety of formats were not only central to artistic professional practice, but that adherence to their images may have provided one motive for entering into such agreements. This study leans upon the centrality of Flemish print sources to confirm the attribution of a partial canvas at the Pinacoteca Universidad de Concepción, Chile as an episode of the series on the life of Diego de Alcalá (c. 1710) in Santiago, Chile. Commissioned from Cusco by the Franciscans of Santiago, the status of the hagiographic cycle as the most extensive ever produced on the subject of this missionary saint dictates that a multiplicity of sources was necessary for its creation. By identifying two engravings that served as its models, this study recovers the subject of this painting as a miracle that sustained Diego during an arduous journey.

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de Flon, Nancy M. "Mary and Roman Catholicism in Mid Nineteenth-Century England: The Poetry of Edward Caswall." Studies in Church History 39 (2004): 308–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0424208400015187.

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In her article on the nineteenth-century Marian revival, Barbara Corrado Pope examines the significance of Mary in the Roman Catholic confrontation with modernity. ‘As nineteenth-century Catholics increasingly saw themselves in a state of siege against the modern world, they turned to those symbols that promised comfort’, she writes. Inevitably the chief symbol was Mary, whom the ‘patriarchal Catholic theology’ of the time held up as embodying the ‘good’ feminine qualities of chastity, humility, and maternal forgiveness. But there is another side to Mary that emerged as even more important and effective in the struggle against what many Catholics perceived as contemporary errors, and this was the militant figure embodied by the Immaculate Conception. The miraculous medal, an icon of Catherine Laboure’s vision of the Virgin treading on a snake, popularized this concept. The crushing of the snake not only had a connection to the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception; it also symbolized victory over sin, particularly the sins of the modern world. ‘Thus while the outstretched arms of the Immaculate Conception promised mercy to the faithful, the iconography of this most widely distributed of Marian images also projected a militant and defiant message that through Mary the Church would defeat its enemies’.

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Abdallah, Dr Laila Osman. "Types of place in the Novel (Hollow Earth) of the Roai Abdulhadi al-Fartousi (Analytical study)." ALUSTATH JOURNAL FOR HUMAN AND SOCIAL SCIENCES, no. 226(1) (September 1, 2018): 119–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.36473/ujhss.v0i226(1).190.

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This research relies on the tawili approach, in order to discover the truth of the literary discourse, and to stand on its aesthetics, by talking about the narrative place with its three sections: the realistic place, which is the place in the narrative text as in reality, taking the same name, and bearing the same qualities. and the optional place (Wadi Shinafiyah). The miraculous place is a place that ends up in various spaces where it is difficult to establish a historical or factual reference. One of the motives behind the preparation of this research is that the narrative is of great importance, and is an important element of the narrative within the fiction, and even though it exceeds its role as a backdrop for events, it reveals profound connotations, which are sometimes described by the technique of description, the use of the symbol, and the third by images . Moreover, our approach to this element does not come in isolation from other elements of the novel, based on the fact that it is a technical focus in which the elements of the novel converge and are intertwined, and that the correct understanding of it can only be seen in relation to it

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Abdallah, Dr Laila Osman. "Types of place in the Novel (Hollow Earth) of the Roai Abdulhadi al-Fartousi (Analytical study)." ALUSTATH JOURNAL FOR HUMAN AND SOCIAL SCIENCES 226, no. 1 (September 1, 2018): 119–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.36473/ujhss.v226i1.190.

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This research relies on the tawili approach, in order to discover the truth of the literary discourse, and to stand on its aesthetics, by talking about the narrative place with its three sections: the realistic place, which is the place in the narrative text as in reality, taking the same name, and bearing the same qualities. and the optional place (Wadi Shinafiyah). The miraculous place is a place that ends up in various spaces where it is difficult to establish a historical or factual reference. One of the motives behind the preparation of this research is that the narrative is of great importance, and is an important element of the narrative within the fiction, and even though it exceeds its role as a backdrop for events, it reveals profound connotations, which are sometimes described by the technique of description, the use of the symbol, and the third by images . Moreover, our approach to this element does not come in isolation from other elements of the novel, based on the fact that it is a technical focus in which the elements of the novel converge and are intertwined, and that the correct understanding of it can only be seen in relation to it

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Green, R. L. "Shrines and Miraculous Images: Religious Life in Mexico Before the Reform. By William B. Taylor. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2010. Pp. xv + 288. $50.00." Religious Studies Review 39, no. 3 (September 2013): 189. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/rsr.12064_9.

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