Tweed Thomas A.:
Our Lady Of The Exile
Diasporic Religion At A Cuban Catholic Shrine In Miami
Oxford University Press (United States), 1997
Hardback, 240 pages
Size: 234x156 mm
ISBN: 9780195105292
ISBN-10: 019510529X
Our Lady Of The Exile
This study of Cuban-American popular Catholicism, focuses on the shrine of Our Lady of Charity in Miami, which is the sacred centre of the Cuban community in exile. Tweed uses historical and ethnographic methods to discover why the shrine attained so much importance and what it says about larger issues of religion, identity and place


