Jennifer Scheper Hughes
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- February 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195367065
- eISBN:
- 9780199867370
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195367065.003.0006
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History
In the twentieth century traditional devotion to religious images, like the Cristo Aparecido was affected by the liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council and by the socially and politically ...
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In the twentieth century traditional devotion to religious images, like the Cristo Aparecido was affected by the liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council and by the socially and politically radical liberation theology movement. Liberation theology was initially suspicious of local celebrations of images of Jesus’ passion on the cross, worrying that these devotions inevitably led poor Catholics to resignation and political passivity. The revolutionary, liberationist bishop of Cuernavaca, Mexico, don Sergio Méndez Arceo, removed many of the traditional baroque saints’ images from his cathedral. However, he was an admirer of the Cristo Aparecido and a friend of the Cristo’s devotees in Totolapan, Morelos, who were among the most active members of the Christian base community movement in Mexico.Less
In the twentieth century traditional devotion to religious images, like the Cristo Aparecido was affected by the liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council and by the socially and politically radical liberation theology movement. Liberation theology was initially suspicious of local celebrations of images of Jesus’ passion on the cross, worrying that these devotions inevitably led poor Catholics to resignation and political passivity. The revolutionary, liberationist bishop of Cuernavaca, Mexico, don Sergio Méndez Arceo, removed many of the traditional baroque saints’ images from his cathedral. However, he was an admirer of the Cristo Aparecido and a friend of the Cristo’s devotees in Totolapan, Morelos, who were among the most active members of the Christian base community movement in Mexico.
