The Many Clothes in Mary's Closet: Popular Piety Toward Inter-Cultural Communion

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2023

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“The Many Coats in Mary’s Closet” traces how the practices of popular religiosity in the Catholic Church can lead us to better understand what Pope Francis means when he talks about “synodality.” Tracing how popular religiosity emerges out of the meeting of distinct cultures, moments of meaning violations, ruptures in justice in our society, and how it can lead to the formation of new cultures which can speak to the Church as a whole, this work seeks to express some of the many ways that the Spirit speaks through the people of God. Making use of the methodological approaches of the social sciences in the context of the Catholic theological tradition, the work seeks to reflect on how common experiences of lived expressions of faith can lead to greater dialogue, both across cultures in the Church and between the laity and hierarchy to help forge a Church which can truly understand itself as “synodal,” as able to walk together.

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Mary, Popular devotion, Santa Muerte, Guadalupe, Copacabana, Lourdes, Ethnography, Ecclesiology, Synodality

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