3. Soho Square And St. Patrick's Church

Visiting St. Patrick’s Church and the shrine to the Virgen de Guadalupe provide the stimulus for reflection on the legacy of colonialism and Catholicism in Latin America. Drawing on a range of examples, the relationship between the two is shown to be rather more complicated than it may at first appear. Further reading: * On the history of St. Patrick’s Church: https://stpatricksoho.org/about/history/ * On Yolanda López: http://almalopez.com/projects/ChicanasLatinas/lopezyolanda3.html * On the St. Patrick’s Batallion: https://time.com/5201896/st-patricks-day-history-mexico/ * Octavio Paz (2004), El laberinto de la soledad; Postdata; Vuelta a El laberinto de la soledad (3rd edn.; México: México: Fondo de Cultura Económica) * Joan Bristol (2016), ‘The Church, Africans, and Slave Religion in Latin America’, in Paul Freston, Stephen C. Dove, and Virginia Garrard-Burnett (eds.), The Cambridge History of Religions in Latin America (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp.198-206 * Derek Krueger (2011), ‘The Religion of Relics in Late Antiquity and Byzantium’, in Martina Bagnoli, et al. (eds.), Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics and Devotion in Medieval Europe (London: British Museum Press), pp.5-17 * Timothy Matovina (2016), ‘Marianism in Latin America’, in Paul Freston, Stephen C. Dove, and Virginia Garrard-Burnett (eds.), The Cambridge History of Religions in Latin America (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp.319-30 * Jennifer Scheper Hughes (2016), ‘Contemporary Popular Catholicism in Latin America’, in Paul Freston, Stephen C. Dove, and Virginia Garrard-Burnett (eds.), The Cambridge History of Religions in Latin America (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp.480-90 Find out more about the Faculty of Arts & Humanities induction for new and returning students, Inspiring Minds 2020, at https://bit.ly/inspiring-minds.