Mary as Mother in the Flores de Mayo in Poblacion, Oslob

The paper reflects on the meanings of the Flores de Mayo ritual as performed in a town on the southeastern coast of Cebu through the examination of Mary as a “semantically open” symbol. The essay illustrates how ideas about Mary are constructed through the discourse of the Church and are in turn, re...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Patricia Marion Y. Lopez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of the Philippines 2016-06-01
Series:Humanities Diliman
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Online Access:http://www.journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/humanitiesdiliman/article/view/4932/4444