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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Language: | English |
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University of the Philippines
2016-06-01
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Series: | Humanities Diliman |
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Online Access: | http://www.journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/humanitiesdiliman/article/view/4932/4444 |