Who is the Virgin of Guadalupe? What does she mean to millions of Latinos/as? How does the church interpret her? These questions are explored in American Woman: The Virgin of Guadalupe, Latinos/as and Accompaniment.

The Virgin of Guadalupe has always been an inextricable part of Mexican and Mexican-American culture, but in recent times she is being embraced by working class Latinos/as, hipster Latina artists and liberation theologians alike. Her rising relevance could be attributed to a society grappling with issues of violence, poverty and racism. La Virgen's accompaniment of her pilgrims on a mission for justice and peace serves as a source of hope and strength. Professor Nabhan-Warren uses historical, theological and cultural lenses to compare recent manifestations of Guadalupe with the prevailing heavenly-focused Guadalupe.

Foreword, Timothy Law Snyder
Acknowledgements

I        Introduction
II       Colonial Historical Context for  Today's Beliefs
III      A Mujer Transcendent
IV      Borderlands Woman: Tonantsin to Today
V       Our Lady of Border Crossers Today
VI      Harvesting Guadalupe: Cosechas Nuevas/New Harvests
VII     Arte de Guadalupe
VIII    For the rest of us: A Living Spirituality of Accompaniment

Endnotes
Contributors Biographies
 

Kristy Nabhan-Warren is Professor and V.O. and Elizabeth Kahl Figge Chair of Catholic Studies at The University of Iowa. Her research and teaching focuses on the relationship between religion, migration, ethnicity and work. She is trained as a cultural historian of religion in the United States and as an anthropologist of religion. She is the author of two books, The Virgin of El Barrio: Marian Apparitions, Catholic Evangelizing, and Mexican American Activism (NYU Press 2005) and The Cursillo Movement in America: Catholics, Protestants and Fourth-Day Spirituality (UNC Press, 2015). Kristy is currently editing The Handbook of Latino/a Christianities for Oxford University Press (Forthcoming Spring 2020) and is writing her third manuscript, Cornbelt America: Work, Food and Faith in the Heartland. She is the creator of and Series editor for The University of North Carolina new book series ''Ethnographies of Religion.'' She loves to teach, and regularly teaches General Education courses ''Religions in America Today'' and ''Sport and Religion in America.'' Her graduate-level courses include ''Writing Religion, Writing Culture,'' and ''Gender and Religion,'' and ''American Religious Histories.'' Kristy enjoys spending time with her husband and three children, running, kayaking, and cooking for family and friends.