Abstract
Scholars have penned an extensive literature on the history and meanings of the Virgin of Guadalupe, undoubtedly the most popular Catholic devotion in contemporary in Mexico and Latin America. Despite this voluminous historiography, Timothy Matovina provides a fresh perspective on Guadalupan devotion. Although he engages the established debates about the apparition’s historicity and the cult’s origin and growth, he devotes his concise book, Theologies of Guadalupe: From the Era of Conquest to Pope Francis, to examining the history of theological interpretations of Guadalupe. Whereas many historians have used Guadalupan sermons and treatises to narrate the devotion’s birth and expansion, Matovina turns to these texts to explore how theologians have understood Guadalupe over time. Matovina divides his book into five chapters. The first two cover the foundational texts, Miguel Sánchez’s Imagen de la Virgen María, the first published work on Guadalupe printed in 1648, and Luis Laso de la...
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