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Governing spirits : religion, miracles, and spectacles in Cuba and Puerto Rico, 1898-1956 / Reinaldo L. Román.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2007.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 273 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780807888940
  • 080788894X
  • 9781469604688
  • 146960468X
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Governing spirits.DDC classification:
  • 200.97291/09041 22
LOC classification:
  • BL2566.C9 R66 2007eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Governing man-gods in Cuba : Hilario Mustelier and Juan Manso -- Governing saints in Puerto Rico : Elenita and the Hermanos Cheos -- Governing witchcraft : journalists and brujos in Republican Cuba -- Self-governing spirits : la Samaritana and Puerto Rico's espiriteros -- Managing miracles in Batista's Cuba : la estigmatizada and clavelito -- Managing miracles in the Commonwealth : the virgin visits Sabana Grande -- Epilogue: The Chupacabras : discourses and social action.
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  • digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Summary: Freedom of religion did not come easily to Cuba or Puerto Rico. Only after the arrival of American troops during the Spanish-American War were non-Catholics permitted to practice their religions openly. This text explores the changing relationship between regulators and practitioners in neocolonial Cuba and Puerto Rico.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-261) and index.

Governing man-gods in Cuba : Hilario Mustelier and Juan Manso -- Governing saints in Puerto Rico : Elenita and the Hermanos Cheos -- Governing witchcraft : journalists and brujos in Republican Cuba -- Self-governing spirits : la Samaritana and Puerto Rico's espiriteros -- Managing miracles in Batista's Cuba : la estigmatizada and clavelito -- Managing miracles in the Commonwealth : the virgin visits Sabana Grande -- Epilogue: The Chupacabras : discourses and social action.

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Freedom of religion did not come easily to Cuba or Puerto Rico. Only after the arrival of American troops during the Spanish-American War were non-Catholics permitted to practice their religions openly. This text explores the changing relationship between regulators and practitioners in neocolonial Cuba and Puerto Rico.

English.