Devotions
Part 2 History
Chapter 23 Hispanic Popular Religiosity in the United States
Preliminary QuestionsBibliography |
Orlando EspínPopular Religion, Devotions, Liturgy |
To Think About |
Preliminary Questions
How are American Catholics influenced by American Religion?
Bibliography
Joyce Ann Zimmerman (Editor). Popular Religion Volume 7, Summer 1998 Edition of Liturgical Ministry. Collegeville, MN.
Orlando Espín
page 2: Popular religion is a locus theologicus
page 3: "Popular" here means (not widespread, most liked, etc) of the people. Thesis: two traditions exist within one and the same church: Official Catholicism and Popular Catholicism. Official Catholicism contacts God through the Liturgy; Popular Catholicism contacts God through devotions. These two co-exist, at times clash, and frequently misunderstand each other.
page 4: Ecclesiological and pastoral models are founded on theological assumptions. The theological assumptions on which Official Catholicism is based had not been successful in developing a theology of the laity, the sensus fidelium or "reception" of doctrine.
page 5: Popular Catholicism is not the sum of Popular Devotions. Popular Catholicism functions as a culturally authentic epistemology. (The founding Friars brought at pre-Tridentine Church to America.) "Figuring out how Latinos could historically and culturally think and image events, doctrines or experiences has often proved more important than what might have been actually thought or imaged." (page 6)
Page 7-10: A case study: Virgen de Guadalupe Official Catholicism sees the Virgen de Guadalupe as an apparition of the Blessed Mother. Popular Catholicism makes little reference to Mary of Nazareth in their devotion to the Virgen de Guadalupe.
Class #04, Friday, October 3, 2003 – Espín (1)
1. The God of the Vanquished
2. Trinitarian Monotheism and the Birth of Popular Catholicism
3. Tradition and Popular Religion
Class #05, Friday, October 31, 2003 – Espín (2)
4. Popular Catholicism
5. Popular Catholicism among Latinos
6. Popular Religion as a Epistemology (of Suffering)
The Liturgical Year
For a summary of the teachings of Official Catholicism regarding the Liturgical Year, see my notes at Chapter y13 Overview of the Liturgical Year
Compare this with the Popular Anglo American understanding of the Liturgical Year, e.g. Advent and Lent.
Compare this with the Popular Latino American understanding of the Liturgical Year, e.g. Advent and Lent.
Role of "Reading the Scriptures"
Function of the Season
Principle characters / actions
To Think About
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