Undocumented Saints

The Politics of Migrating Devotions

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

AvWilliam A. Calvo-Quirós,University of Michigan) Calvo-Quiros, William A. (Assistant Professor of American Culture and Latinx Studies, Assistant Professor of American Culture and Latinx Studies

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Undocumented Saints follows the migration of popular saints from Mexico into the US and the evolution of their meaning. The book explores how Latinx battles for survival are performed in the worlds of faith, religiosity, and the imaginary, and how the socio-political realities of exploitation and racial segregation frame their popular religious expressions. It also tracks the emergence of inter-religious states, transnational ethnic and cultural enclaves unified by faith. The book looks at five vernacular saints that have emerged in Mexico and whose devotions have migrated into the US in the last one hundred years: Jesús Malverde, a popular bandido turned saint caudillo; Santa Olguita, an emerging feminist saint linked to border women's experiences of sexual violence; Juan Soldado, a murder-rapist soldier who is now a patron for undocumented immigrants and the main suspect in the death of an eight-year-old victim known now as Santa Olguita; Toribio Romo, a Catholic priest whose ghost/spirit has been helping people cross the border into the US since the 1990s; and La Santa Muerte, a controversial personification of death who is particularly popular among LGBTQ migrants. Each chapter contextualizes a particular popular saint within broader discourses about the construction of masculinity and the state, the long history of violence against Latina and migrant women, female erasure from history, discrimination against non-normative sexualities, and as US and Mexican investment in the control of religiosity within the discourses of immigration.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-12-16
Mått235 x 156 x 25 mm
Vikt649 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor368
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780197630228
UtmärkelserWinner, Best First Book in the History of Religions, American Academy of Religion Winner, 2023 The Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize, American Society of Church History

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William A. Calvo-Quirós is Assistant Professor of American Culture and Latinx Studies at the University of Michigan. His current research investigates the relationship between state violence, imagination, religiosity, and spirituality along the U.S. - Mexico border region during the twentieth century. His work studies the evolution and the politics of surveillance and control around Latino religiosity.

List of FiguresIntroduction: The Shifting Cartographies of Religious MigrationChapter 1: Jesús Malverde: A Saint of the People, for the PeopleChapter 2: Santa Olguita and Juan Soldado: Unresolved Sainthood and the Unholy Rituals of MemoryChapter 3: Saint Toribio Romo: Racialized Border MiraclesChapter 4: La Santa Muerte: The Patrona of the Death-WorldsConclusion: On Earth as It Is in HeavenBibliographyNotesIndex

In this brilliant and beautiful book, William A. Calvo-Quirós shows how for more than a century the miracles of migrant survival, subsistence, resistance, and affirmation have been fueled by the veneration of vernacular saints, most of whom remain not canonized by the Church. In the midst of exploitation, criminalization, and demonization, narratives about and appeals to Jesùs Malverde, Juan Soldado, Olga Camacho, Toribio Romo, and La Santa Muerte have enabled migrants to envision a future beyond oppression. The specific case studies in this book evoke a larger truth: that as people migrate, faith accompanies them, and becomes transformed in the process.

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