Month: October 2021

This week we discussed the importance of hope, spirit, and care in the processes of healing and recovering bodies from violence, rape, annihilation, humiliation, and denigration, and we considered the potential submissive dimensions of hope, spirit, and care in those precise same processes. On Monday we discussed Greenwood and Delgado’s article on fitness and spirituality,… Continue reading Oct. 25-27. Recovering Bodies.

This week, we sought to understand the close interweaving of religion and violence in the life of Latinas.  On Wednesday, we discussed the work of Ames, Ware, and Behnke on religion, culture, violence, and church leaders, and the concept of maternal self-mourning, translated for a “Gender and Domination” course by Moises Ramirez. We also discussed… Continue reading Oct. 18-20. Raping Latinas: femicide, violence against women, STDs, sex trafficking

This short week we discussed the concept of transnational, its matters, and how they matter to gain a better understanding of Latinas and Religion. In our discussion we considered the significance and meaning of transnational matters to understand the correspondences between Latinas and Religion, and each one of you discussed with several partners what would… Continue reading Oct. 13. Transnational Matters

This week we discussed what it means to walk the broken paths of home, homeland, and homeland security that turn upside down all we have learned until now.  The strength and purity of blood, honor, lineage, healing, and so on that we have seen and aprehended become bloody, violent, and deadly, especially for mothers, as… Continue reading Oct. 4-6. Home, Homeland, Homeland Security

This week we worked on new understandings of the importance of geopolitical negotiations in the constitution of Latina bodies and their exercise of devotion.  Looking at three vastly different, yet interrelated cases (the mobile devotion of guadalupanas, spirit possession in the Venezuelan cult of María Lionza, and the various branches of affiliation and love towards… Continue reading Sept. 28-30. Migration and Devotion