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  • The Healing Power of the Santuario de Chimayó

    America's Miraculous Church

    by Brett Hendrickson ...
    Winner, 2018 Paul J. Foik Award for Best Book on Catholic History in the American Southwest, presented by the Texas Catholic Historical SocietyThe remarkable history of the Santuario de Chimayó, the church whose world-renowned healing powers have drawn visitors to its steps for centuries.Nestled in a valley at the feet of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of New Mexico, the Santuario de Chimayó has ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Border Medicine

    A Transcultural History of Mexican American Curanderismo

    by Brett Hendrickson ...
    Series series North American Religions
    MexicanAmerican folk and religious healing, often referred to as curanderismo, has been a vital part of life in the Mexico-U.S.border region for centuries. A hybrid tradition made up primarily of indigenousand Iberian Catholic pharmacopeias, rituals, and notions of the self, curanderismo treats the sick person witha variety of healing modalities including herbal remedies, intercessory prayer,body ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Mexican American Religions

    An Introduction

    by Brett Hendrickson ...
    Series series Religion in America
    Mexican American Religions is a concise introduction to the religious life of Mexican American people in the United States. This accessible volume uses historical narrative to explore the complex religious experiences and practices that have shaped Mexican American life in North America. It addresses the religious impact of U.S. imperial expansion into formerly Mexican territory and examines how ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Crisis of Care

    Religion and Empire in the American West Since 1848

    Edited by Brandi Denison, Brett Hendrickson ...
    As the United States expanded westward during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, religion played a key role in US imperial desires—whether a particular religious tradition thwarted these desires, worked to uphold them, or fell somewhere in between. Illuminating how religious institutions, leaders, and practitioners tended to their communities in the face of land dispossession, settlement, and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

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    Globalization, Migration, and Religious Change in a Oaxacan Indigenous Group

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