Religion in America

by Thomas A. Tweed

Book Overview

Our Lady of the Exile is a study of Cuban-American popular Catholicism, focusing on the shrine of Our Lady Charity in Miami. Drawing on a wide range of sources and using both historical and ethnographic methods, the book examines the religious life of the Cuban exiles who visit the shrine. Those pilgrims are diverse, and so are the motives that bring them. At the same time, author Thomas A. Tweed argues, Cuban devotees of the national patroness share...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195155939
• ISBN13: 9780195155938
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Our Lady Of the Exile:Disaporic Religion at a Cuban Catholic Shrine In Miami..Beautiful...w/some fau

As A Cuban Catholic myself(My parents came in 1967 and 1980)who was born In Miami, And Raised here, Raised Roman Catholic, This book already Establishes alot of what I already Knew and Love. My Patria, My Religion,Mi Cubanidad, I grew up going to La Ermita Del La Caridad And Still do,I was born next door to it(Mercy Hospital) and my Uncle Attended La Salle.These are my roots. I disagree with some of the author's ill conceived ideas such as Pre 1959 Cuba, About Racism in Cuba, the book other than that gives others (non Cubans) what We already have experienced without Anti-Cuban Rhetoric which We are used to From Anglos and Non-Cubans,Liberals, And Anti-Catholics.The book also shows the major differences between Catholicism and Santeria which True Catholics Should Not Dabble With. La Virgencita "Cachita" will see to it that Cuba Once again will be Free From Tyranny, and all Cubans Being United, She intercedes for us,As We Petition for Health,And Family Matters.