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AbstractThis article examines the annual public procession in Lima, Peru, of the Señor de los Milagros (Lord of Miracles) in relation to issues at the intersection of Catholic Christianity, media, and political authority. Through a theopolitical lens alert to the intermeshing of political sovereignty and authority with theological (Catholic) worldviews, I inquire into media and the Señor de los Milagros procession along three key intersecting themes that link scales of local and global Catholicism: performance, identity/belonging, and control. Key to my argument is the idea of the miraculous (lo milagroso), a culturally resonant register of embodied affective experience with compelling power, which points to how senses of belonging, authority, and 'proper' Catholic subjecthoods are intensified by Catholicism's diffusion through new mediatic forms, especially in church‐generated productions. A consideration of media technologies, mediation, and Catholicism nuances theoretical assumptions within the anthropology of Christianity, and also suggests that the anthropology of religion should attend more closely to mediation and mediatization as newer media infrastructures – channelling flows of information, images, and affects – extend 'the religious' into other social spheres.

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"Aimed at a wide audience of readers, The Anthropology of Catholicism is the first companion guide to this burgeoning field within the anthropology of Christianity. Bringing to light Catholicism's long but comparatively ignored presence within the discipline of anthropology, the book introduces readers to key studies in the field, as well as to current analyses on the present and possible futures of Catholicism globally. This reader provides both ethnographic material and theoretical reflections on Catholicism around the world, demonstrating how a revised anthropology of Catholicism can generate new insights and analytical frameworks that will impact anthropology as well as other disciplines"--Provided by publisher

This book focuses on the ethnographic study of Catholicism and media. Chapters demonstrate how people engage with the Catholic media-scape, and analyse the social, cultural, and political processes that underlie Catholic media and mediatization. Case studies examine Catholic practices in North America, Western and Eastern Europe, Latin America, South-East Asia, and Africa, providing a truly comparative, de-centred representation of global Catholicism. Illustrating the vibrancy and heterogeneity of Catholicism world-wide, the book also examines how media work to sustain larger global Catholic imaginaries

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Part one INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1 State Terror in the U.S.–Latin American Interstate Regime -- Chapter 2 Operation Condor as a Hemispheric "Counterterror" Organization -- Part two CENTRAL AMERICA AND MEXICO -- Chapter 3 "The Blood of the People" The Guardia Nacional's Fifty-year War against the People of Nicaragua, 1927–1979 -- Chapter 4 The Culture and Politics of State Terror and Repression in El Salvador -- Chapter 5 Caught in the Crossfire: Militarization, Paramilitarization, and State Violence in Oaxaca, Mexico -- Chapter 6 Bloody Deeds/Hechos Sangrientos: Reading Guatemala's Record of Political Violence in Cadaver Reports -- Chapter 7 U.S. Militarization of Honduras in the 1980s and the Creation of CIA-backed Death Squad -- chapter 8 "No Hay Rosas Sin Espinas" Statecraft in Costa Rica -- Part three SOUTH AMERICA -- Chapter 9 The Colombian Nightmare: Human Rights Abuses and the Contradictory Effects of U.S. Foreign Policy -- Chapter 10 The Path of State Terror in Peru -- Chapter 11 Turning on Their Masters: State Terrorism and Unlearning Democracy in Uruguay -- Chapter 12 Producing and Exporting State Terror The Case of Argentina -- Part four CONCLUSION -- chapter 13 New Responses to State Terror -- About the Contributors -- Index