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Katherine Dugan (Edited By) Katherine Dugan is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Springfield College in Western Massachusetts. She is the author of Millennial Missionaries: How a Group of Young Catholics Is Trying to Make Catholicism Cool (Oxford University Press, 2019).Karen E. Park (Edited By) Karen E. Park is Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at St. Norbert College, in De Pere, Wisconsin. She has written widely on Marian devotion and shrines and American religion and popular culture. She holds a PhD from the Divinity School of the University of Chicago.

• Introduction 1Katherine Dugan and Karen E. ParkPart I: Mapping Marian Places"Lourdes of the Southwest":The Borderlands Transformation of a Nineteenth-Century French ShrineAdrienne Nock Ambrose 21"Guadalupe Represents La Cultura":A Mexican American Mural-Shrine in CaliforniaLloyd Barba 44A Global Odyssey: Our Lady of Perpetual Help and the Promise to "Make Her Known"Patrick J. Hayes 67The Battle of Bayside: Contesting Religious Topographies in an Urban Apparition SiteJoseph P. Laycock 92Part II: Shifting Marian MeaningsFatima Family Shrine: Reinterpreting Mary on the South Dakota PrairieKatherine Dugan 117Consolation's Many Faces:Ethnic Intersections at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Consolation in Carey, OhioDavid J. Endres 139American Czestochowa:Polish Piety and Haitian Hybridities of Marian Meaning in PennsylvaniaTerry Rey 159The National Shrine Basilica of Our Lady of Fatima:Meaning Making at a Cold War Niagara Falls Tourist ShrineKaren E. Park 183Part III: Devotional Creativity at Marian ShrinesDigital Devotion: Marian Shrines OnlineKayla Harris 205Our Lady of the Underpass: Sacred and Social Space in the CityStephen Selka 222Materiality and Attachment:Universality and Locality at Roman Catholic Pilgrimage SitesClaire Vaughn and James S. Bielo 244"These Are Our Saints":A Lourdes Shrine, the St. Coletta School for Exceptional Children, and the Catholic Remakingof Cognitive DisabilityAndrew Walker-Cornetta 261Acknowledgments 287Bibliography 289List of Contributors 307Index 309