| Mozarabs, Hispanics, and the Cross Contributor(s): Gomez-Ruiz, Raul (Author) |
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ISBN: 157075733X ISBN-13: 9781570757334 Publisher: Orbis Books OUR PRICE: $37.80 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2007 Annotation: Veneration of the cross plays a major role in hispanic popular religion. But for the Mozarabs, a Catholic community that traces its roots to the Visagoths and Hispano-Romans of seventh-century Spain, veneration of the cross--particularly the Lignum Crucis, a relic of the "True Cross"--has served to join devotion to Christ with a powerful symbol of religio-ethnic identity and servival in the face of persecution. The Mozarabs (the term may mean "Arabized") of Toledo maintained their Catholic identity through the period of Islamic rule. After the Christian reconquest of Spain and the imposition of uniform Roman liturgical rites, they clung tightly to their own Mozarabic Rite, which is still recognized and celebrated today. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - History - Religion | Christian Rituals & Practice - Worship & Liturgy - History | Europe - Spain & Portugal |
| Dewey: 282.464 |
| LCCN: 2007007672 |
| Series: Studies in Latino/A Catholicism |
| Physical Information: 0.61" H x 6.08" W x 9.18" (0.83 lbs) 252 pages |
| Themes: - Theometrics - Catholic - Religious Orientation - Christian - Religious Orientation - Catholic - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) - Religious Orientation - Islamic |
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| Publisher Description: Raul Gomez-Ruiz demonstrates that Hispanic Catholicism is rooted not only in indigenous religions and the conquest of the mestizaje and the Americas, but also in Iberian Catholicism." |
