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Faith, Politics, and the Power of Images in Mexico
Sep 08 2026
The guest editors of Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos’s special issue on Catholic visual culture discuss how images have shaped religious memory, political activism, and debates over identity in Mexico from the Cristero War to the present.
The Social Lives of God Pictures and Temple Statues
Jul 08 2021
By Laurel Kendall, author of Mediums and Magical Things: Statues, Paintings, and Masks in Asian PlacesThe paintings of bold-faced gods in the Korean shaman’s shrine had fallen to the floor and stuck together. “They had been fighting,” the shaman said. They had caused her a season of bad luck, i