Migrant Hearts and the Atlantic Return : Transnationalism and the Roman Catholic Church.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (248 pages)
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Catholic Humanitas -- 1. Migrant Terrains in Italy and Rome -- 2. The "Culture of Life" and Migrant Pedagogies -- 3. The Legionaries of Christ and the Passionate Machine -- 4. Migrant Hearts -- 5. The Virgin of Guadalupe: A Nexus of Affects -- 6. Enwalled: Translocality, Intimacies, and Gendered Subjectivity -- Epilogue -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V.
Through the rendering of Catholic Church migration's debates this book shows how Latin American lay and religious migration in Rome is an Atlantic Return from the Americas challenging an Euro-centric Catholic identity and how multiple forms of being Catholic inform gender, labor and sexuality at the heart of Catholicism in Europe.
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Emigration and immigration--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.