Chile y algo más. Estudios de historia latinoamericana (review)
As a historian I found the papers in the first section—with well-researched and engagingly written essays by Francisco Miranda Godínez, Martinus Cawley, Linda B. Hall, and Stafford Poole—to be the most useful. Clearly, the origin of the Virgin of Guadalupe and the redefinition of this symbol over several centuries has inspired passion and controversy. Miranda Godínez’s analysis of the Marian tradition in reference to the Virgin of Guadalupe and the Virgin de Los Remedios and Francisco J. Crespo’s later discussion of la Virgin de La Caridad del Cobre/Ochún provide useful points of comparison from within the Latin American Catholic tradition. Other forms of popular religious expression, as well as thoughtful essays on mysticism in diverse ethnic and religious contexts, are also included.