Devotion in Motion: Pilgrimage in Modern Mexico [Paperback]

A study of contemporary pilgrimage through the elastic history of a shrine in Oaxaca, Mexico.
 
For many, pilgrimage conjures ideas about ancient traditions and somber journeys of self-discovery—an escape from modern life. InDevotion in Motion, Edward Wright-Ríos argues that we misunderstand pilgrimage (past and present) if we ignore its dynamic relationship with the rhythms of daily life and community.

Through the story of a centuries-old, ever-changing Catholic shrine to Our Lady of Juquila in Oaxaca, Mexico, Wright-Ríos reveals how tradition, innovation, marketing, and devotion coexist and interact in pilgrimage. Devotees, he shows, are not dissuaded by the embeddedness of the sacred site in the complexities, hierarchies, or conflicts of their lives. In fact, the truckers, accountants, and health-care workers we meet in this book actively seek new resources (including social media) to aid and share their devotion. Part microhistory, part ethnography,Devotion in Motionis a celebration of pilgrimage as a living experience in every generation.Edward Wright-Ríosis professor of history at Vanderbilt University. His books includeSearching for Madre Matiana: Prophecy and Popular Culture in Modern Mexico.En camino—In Transit, November 2016
1: The Virgin Moves You
2: A Past in Fragments
3: The Polemical Priest
4: Devotion and Market
5:Póngalo en Fais—Put It on Facebook
6: A Contingent Alchemy
7: How Traditions Begin
8: Walking Together
9: A Festival on Wheels
10: Arriving at Your Feet
On My Skin and in My Heart

Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Few scholars have had the patience, knowledge, compassion, and analytic power to explore this subject as brilliantly as Wright-R?os has. If you have never been on a pilgrimage, readingDevotion in Motion, and enjoyingl3„