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ACEVES AVILA, Roberto. El culto a la Virgen de Zapopan durante el periodo colonial: el paso de una imagen sin origen milagroso al de una reliquia taumatúrgica. Intersticios sociales [online]. 2016, n.11. ISSN 2007-4964.

In this paper we analyze the process by which the Virgin of Zapopan, a religious image with no supernatural origins, acquires the status of a thaumaturgic relic since the seventeenth century. This process exemplifies the way in which judicial, theological and historical knowledge intertwine in the realm of religious practice; they shape social subjects, in this case, an Enlightened believer, according to the guidelines of Tridentine and Bourbon religious reforms. The history of the cult of the Virgin of Zapopan shows that devotions are a result of an election of the faithful, who practice them because they find them useful, according to the traditions and beliefs, in this case in the context of baroque spirituality. Devotions also depend on the interaction of the individual with other elements of society (like the State, the elites, civil and religious institutions) articulated in what Foucault calls a reticulate of powers, exercising a disciplinary power on people. The interaction of these elements, along the lines of specific knowledge and discourses regulates religious practices, thus aiding to shape specific social subjects. In this context, the article analyzes the inquiry ordered in 1653 by Bishop Juan Ruiz Colmenero, as well as the one required by bishop Nicolás Gómez de Cervantes in 1731, and the decrees issued by the Fourth Mexican Provincial Council (1771).

Palabras llave : Virgin of Zapopan; inquiry; knowledges; Baroque spirituality; Bourbon reforms.

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