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Our Lady of Everyday Life

La Virgen de Guadalupe and the Catholic Imagination of Mexican Women in America

Author: María Del Socorro Castañeda-Liles  

Our Lady of Everyday Life is an ethnographic study of three generations of Mexican origin women (college students, mothers, and older women) and their experiences growing up Catholic. The book focuses on their relationship with Our Lady of Guadalupe as central to what Castañeda-Liles calls their "Mexican Catholic imagination."

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Our Lady of Everyday Life is an ethnographic study of three generations of Mexican origin women (college students, mothers, and older women) and their experiences growing up Catholic. The book focuses on their relationship with Our Lady of Guadalupe as central to what Castañeda-Liles calls their "Mexican Catholic imagination."

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For Mexican Catholic women in the United States, devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe-La Virgen-is a necessary aspect of their cultural identity. In this masterful ethnography, María Del Socorro Castañeda-Liles considers three generations of Mexican-origin women between the ages of 18 and 82. She examines the Catholic beliefs the women inherited from their mothers and how these beliefs become the template from which they first learn to seethemselves as people of faith. She also offers a comprehensive analysis of how Catholicism creates a culture in which Mexican-origin women learn how to be "good girls" in a manner that reduces their agency to rubble.Through the nexus of faith and lived experience, these women develop a type of Mexican Catholic imagination that helps them challenge the sanctification of shame, guilt, and aguante (endurance at all cost). This imagination allows these women to transgress strict notions of what a good Catholic woman should be while retaining life-giving aspects of Catholicism. This transgression is most visible in their relationship to La Virgen, which is a fluid anddeeply engaged process of self-awareness in everyday life.

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Awards

Winner of Winner of the 2020 Latina/o Sociology Book Award for Distinguished Contribution to Research from the American Sociological Association.

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Critic Reviews

“"This is the single most important book ever written in the sociology of religion on Mexican American women's popular devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe. Theoretically and methodologically sophisticated, its rich narratives and powerful stories provide remarkable insights into the spirituality and power of Latina popular Catholicism in the lives of ordinary women on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. A must read!"--Gastn Espinosa, Arthur V. Stoughton Professor of Religion, Claremont McKenna College and author of Latino Religions and Civic Activism in the United States "Anyone familiar with Latinoa religions will certainly encounter the devotion of so many to La Virgen de Guadalupe. Many other works have centered on Guadalupe herself, but few have studied the devotion among real-life women, and across generations. Castaeda-Liles has authored a very important contribution to religious studies, and to theology as well. This book is thoroughly researched, well argued, clearly written. And it will demand careful study by anyone who would study the Guadalupe devotion, Latina women, and popular religion."--Orlando O. Espn, University Professor of Theology and Religious Studies, University of San Diego "Through intimate portraits of women across three generations, Mara Del Socorro Castaeda-Liles depicts what it means to see family, community, and the sacred through a Mexican Catholic Imagination. Our Lady of Everyday Life powerfully demonstrates how religion works alongside race, class, gender, and sexuality to shape Chicana/Latina women's subjectivity."--Tricia C. Bruce, author of Parish and Place: Making Room for Diversity in the American Catholic Church”

"Our Lady of Everyday Life has been very positively received by other reviewers and has won a book award from the American Sociological Association. Such recognition is well deserved: Castañeda-Liles has made an impressive contribution to the scholarship on lived religion, Mexican/Mexican-American Catholicism, feminist studies in religion, and other fields...The book is an excellent, accessible example of ethnographic writing. Therefore, it canbe profitably assigned to undergraduate and graduate students in a variety of courses and appreciated by a range of scholars." -- Brian Stiltner, Ecclesial Practices"This is the single most important book ever written in the sociology of religion on Mexican American women's popular devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe. Theoretically and methodologically sophisticated, its rich narratives and powerful stories provide remarkable insights into the spirituality and power of Latina popular Catholicism in the lives of ordinary women on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. A must read!"--Gastón Espinosa, Arthur V. StoughtonProfessor of Religion, Claremont McKenna College and author of Latino Religions and Civic Activism in the United States"Anyone familiar with Latinoa religions will certainly encounter the devotion of so many to La Virgen de Guadalupe. Many other works have centered on Guadalupe herself, but few have studied the devotion among real-life women, and across generations. Castañeda-Liles has authored a very important contribution to religious studies, and to theology as well. This book is thoroughly researched, well argued, clearly written. And it will demand carefulstudy by anyone who would study the Guadalupe devotion, Latina women, and popular religion."--Orlando O. Espín, University Professor of Theology and Religious Studies, University of San Diego"Through intimate portraits of women across three generations, María Del Socorro Castañeda-Liles depicts what it means to see family, community, and the sacred through a Mexican Catholic Imagination. Our Lady of Everyday Life powerfully demonstrates how religion works alongside race, class, gender, and sexuality to shape Chicana/Latina women's subjectivity."--Tricia C. Bruce, author of Parish and Place: Making Room for Diversity inthe American Catholic Church

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About the Author

María Del Socorro Castañeda-Liles is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Santa Clara University.

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Our Lady of Everyday Life examines the lived religion, from childhood to adulthood, of three generations of Mexican-origin Catholic women. The book provides an in-depth analysis of the Catholic beliefs that the women in this study inherited from their mothers, and the ways these beliefs become the religious/cultural template from which they first learn to see themselves as people of faith. Our Lady of Everyday Life also offers a comprehensiveanalysis of the ways Catholic culture sets the parameters within which Mexican-origin women learn how to be good girls in a manner that reduces a girl's agency to rubble. Casta

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Product Details

Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Published
26th April 2018
Pages
296
ISBN
9780190280406

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