Historic Churches of New Mexico Today

Author:   Frank Graziano (John D. McArthur Professor Emeritus, John D. McArthur Professor Emeritus, Connecticut College)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
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9780190663483


Pages:   312
Publication Date:   30 May 2019
Format:   Paperback
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This interpretive guide combines history and ethnography to represent living traditions at the adobe and stone churches of New Mexico. Each chapter treats a particular church or group of churches and includes photographs, practical information for visitors, and context pertinent to current understanding. Frank Graziano provides unprecedented coverage of the churches by combining his extensive fieldwork with research in archives and previous scholarship. The book is written in an engaging narrative prose that brings the reader inside of congregations in Indian and Hispanic villages. The focus is less on church buildings than on people in relation to churches -- parishioners, caretakers, priests, restorers -- and on the author's experiences researching among them.

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Author:   Frank Graziano (John D. McArthur Professor Emeritus, John D. McArthur Professor Emeritus, Connecticut College)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.466kg
ISBN:  

9780190663483


ISBN 10:   0190663480
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   30 May 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Preface Chapter 1: Santuario de Chimayó Chapter 2: Churches along the High Road to Taos Chapter 3: St. Joseph Mission Church, Laguna Pueblo Chapter 4: San Esteban del Rey, Acoma Pueblo Chapter 5: Conflicts at Kewa and Isleta Pueblos Chapter 6: Churches along the Southern Rio Grande Chapter 7: St. Joseph Apache Mission, Mescalero Chapter 8: Mission Churches of Mora County Chapter 9: San Francisco de Asís, Golden Appendix: An Annotated Selection of Other Historic Churches Works Cited

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In Historic Churches of New Mexico, the distinguished Latin Americanist Frank Graziano takes a deep dive into the history, design aesthetics, and cultural significance of New Mexico's adobe churches. Written with verve and deep sympathy for the heritage of the state's Native American and Hispanic peoples, this engaging book serves as a splendid introduction to the nation's most emotive vernacular architecture and the spiritual commitments that have shaped it. * Michael F. Brown, President of the School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico * Frank Graziano's moving prose elegy laments the seemingly inexorable decline of so many of New Mexico's historic churches. Rather than suggesting rosy alternatives, this penetrating study interrogates potential optimistic and pessimistic outcomes for these sacred spaces. This is also a deeply personal and revealing examination of practicing Catholics and clergy in the Hispanic and Native communities where these churches are located. * Rick Hendricks, State Historian of New Mexico *


"""Frank Graziano's moving prose elegy laments the seemingly inexorable decline of so many of New Mexico's historic churches. Rather than suggesting rosy alternatives, this penetrating study interrogates potential optimistic and pessimistic outcomes for these sacred spaces. This is also a deeply personal and revealing examination of practicing Catholics and clergy in the Hispanic and Native communities where these churches are located."" -- Rick Hendricks, State Historian of New Mexico ""In Historic Churches of New Mexico, the distinguished Latin Americanist Frank Graziano takes a deep dive into the history, design aesthetics, and cultural significance of New Mexico's adobe churches. Written with verve and deep sympathy for the heritage of the state's Native American and Hispanic peoples, this engaging book serves as a splendid introduction to the nation's most emotive vernacular architecture and the spiritual commitments that have shaped it."" -- Michael F. Brown, President of the School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico"


Frank Graziano's moving prose elegy laments the seemingly inexorable decline of so many of New Mexico's historic churches. Rather than suggesting rosy alternatives, this penetrating study interrogates potential optimistic and pessimistic outcomes for these sacred spaces. This is also a deeply personal and revealing examination of practicing Catholics and clergy in the Hispanic and Native communities where these churches are located. -- Rick Hendricks, State Historian of New Mexico In Historic Churches of New Mexico, the distinguished Latin Americanist Frank Graziano takes a deep dive into the history, design aesthetics, and cultural significance of New Mexico's adobe churches. Written with verve and deep sympathy for the heritage of the state's Native American and Hispanic peoples, this engaging book serves as a splendid introduction to the nation's most emotive vernacular architecture and the spiritual commitments that have shaped it. -- Michael F. Brown, President of the School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico


Author Information

Frank Graziano is the recipient of grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Fulbright and Fulbright-Hays programs, Duke University, and the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center, among many others. He lives in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of northern New Mexico.

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