Marian Devotions, Political Mobilization, and Nationalism in Europe and America

1. Introduction
Roberto Stefano, Francisco Javier Ramón Solans

Part I. Europe

2. Liturgical Creativity and Marian Solemnity: The Coronation of Pilgrimage Virgin Maries in France (1853–1964)
Claude Langlois

3. Politics of the Sacred: Lourdes, France, and Rome
Christian Sorrel

4. Marpingen: A Remote Village and Its Virgin in a Transnational Context
Olaf Blaschke

5. The Virgin of Begoña and the Fight for the City: An Example of Culture War in the Spain of the Restoration (Vizcaya, 1880–1904)
Joseba Louzao Villar

6. A New Lourdes in Spain: The Virgin of El Pilar, Mass Devotion, National Symbolism and Political Mobilization
Francisco Javier Ramón Solans

7. Fátima and the Politics of Devotion
Sandra L. Zimdars-Swartz

8. The Virgin Mary, State, and Nation in Transcarpathian Ukraine
Agnieszka Halemba

Part II. America

9. The Virgin of Guadalupe and the Americas: Migration and Movement
Linda B. Hall

10. Our Lady of Juquila: Nation, Region, and Marian Devotions
Edward Wright-Ríos

11. Our Lady of Luján: National Identity and Mass Mobilization in Argentina
Roberto Stefano, Diego Mauro

12. The Virgin of Verdún and the Political Struggle Against Secularization in Uruguay
Susana Monreal

Avainsanat: Religious Studies, Religion and Society, Comparative Politics, Catholicism