On the Personhood of Sacred Objects: Agency, Materiality and Popular Devotion in the Roman Catholic Philippines
This paper is an analysis of the Santo Niño de Cebu, a statue of the child Jesus that is the object of widespread popular devotion among Roman Catholics in the Philippines. The central hypothesis is that a continuing challenge of Roman Catholicism in the Philippines, at least from the perspective of...
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MDPI AG
2021-06-01
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| Series: | Religions |
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/12/7/454 |