¿Cómo mirar una estampita? Propuesta metodológica para el estudio de imágenes religiosas impresas
Abstract
This article puts forward a methodological study of holy cards from an interdisciplinary perspective that combines visual and material studies, and popular religion. Based on a corpus drawn from the Historical Provincial Archive of the Society of Jesus in Chile, the study proposes a methodological framework built on four dimensions: iconographic, material, scriptural, and positional. These categories explore how these images mediate the sacred in everyday life, articulating devotional, affective, and bodily practices within Catholic communities from the mid-19th onwards. Through the proposed methodology, it is revealed how these images configure symbolic and social universes that connect beliefs, collective memories, and cultural practices, opening up a broader reflection on the role of material objects in constructing religious experience and their persistence in contemporary visual culture.
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