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Jennifer Scheper Hughes, Biography of a Mexican Crucifix. Lived Religions and Local Faith from the Conquest to the Present . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, xii + 312 pp. ISBN 978 0 195 36707 2. £19.99.

Jennifer Scheper Hughes, Biography of a Mexican Crucifix. Lived Religions and Local Faith from... Jennifer Scheper Hughes, Biography of a Mexican Crucifix. Lived Religions and Local Faith from the Conquest to the Present. Oxford University Press, Oxford , xii + pp. ISBN . .. This book traces the story of the Cristo Aparecido ("Christ Appeared"), a sculpture of Jesus Christ on the cross, through four and a half centuries of Mexican history. Hughes calls her book a "biography," acknowledging the image's status as a living being in the eyes of his devotees. She emphasizes the emotional experiences that arise out of devotional engagement with the image. I here follow the author in referring to the image as "he," rather than "it." The Cristo was carved in the sixteenth century from a local material, the wooden shaft of the maguey plant. He resides in Totolapan, a formerly Nahuatl-speaking community of about , people in the state of Morelos, where he remains the principal focus of the town's religious life. Hughes bases the book on library and archival research and on fieldwork carried out in Mexico and among migrants from Totolapan who live in California but continue to participate in the devotion. The image enters the historical record in , when Augustinian friars claiming http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Church History and Religious Culture (formerly Nederlands Archief voor Kerkgeschiedenis) Brill

Jennifer Scheper Hughes, Biography of a Mexican Crucifix. Lived Religions and Local Faith from the Conquest to the Present . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, xii + 312 pp. ISBN 978 0 195 36707 2. £19.99.

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Brill
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Copyright 2012 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1871-241X
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1871-2428
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10.1163/18712428-09220045
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Jennifer Scheper Hughes, Biography of a Mexican Crucifix. Lived Religions and Local Faith from the Conquest to the Present. Oxford University Press, Oxford , xii + pp. ISBN . .. This book traces the story of the Cristo Aparecido ("Christ Appeared"), a sculpture of Jesus Christ on the cross, through four and a half centuries of Mexican history. Hughes calls her book a "biography," acknowledging the image's status as a living being in the eyes of his devotees. She emphasizes the emotional experiences that arise out of devotional engagement with the image. I here follow the author in referring to the image as "he," rather than "it." The Cristo was carved in the sixteenth century from a local material, the wooden shaft of the maguey plant. He resides in Totolapan, a formerly Nahuatl-speaking community of about , people in the state of Morelos, where he remains the principal focus of the town's religious life. Hughes bases the book on library and archival research and on fieldwork carried out in Mexico and among migrants from Totolapan who live in California but continue to participate in the devotion. The image enters the historical record in , when Augustinian friars claiming

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