Holy Organ or Unholy Idol?
Holy Organ or Unholy Idol?

Author: Lauren G. Kilroy-Ewbank

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-01-28

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 9004384960

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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.

Basques in the Philippines
Basques in the Philippines

Author: Marciano R. De Borja

Publisher: University of Nevada Press

Published: 2012-06-12

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 0874178916

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The Basques played a remarkably influential role in the creation and maintenance of Spain’s colonial establishment in the Philippines. Their skills as shipbuilders and businessmen, their evangelical zeal, and their ethnic cohesion and work-oriented culture made them successful as explorers, colonial administrators, missionaries, merchants, and settlers. They continued to play prominent roles in the governance and economy of the archipelago until the end of Spanish sovereignty, and their descendants still contribute in significant ways to the culture and economy of the contemporary Philippines. This book offers important new information about a little-known aspect of Philippine history and the influence of Basque immigration in the Spanish Empire, and it fills an important void in the literature of the Basque diaspora.

Between Exaltation and Infamy
Between Exaltation and Infamy

Author: Stephen Haliczer

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 0195148630

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Using case-studies and biographies, the author examines women's mysticism in 16th- and 17th-century Spain and investigates the spiritual forces that provided women with a way to transcend the control of the male-dominated Catholic Church.