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Holy Organ or Unholy Idol? focuses on the significance of the cult of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and its accompanying imagery in eighteenth-century New Spain. Lauren G. Kilroy-Ewbank considers paintings, prints, devotional texts, and archival sources within the Mexican context alongside issues and debates occurring in Europe to situate the New Spanish cult within local and global developments. She examines the iconography of these religious images and frames them within broader socio-political and religious discourses related to the Eucharist, the sun, the Jesuits, scientific and anatomical ideas, and mysticism. Images of the Heart helped to champion the cult’s validity as it was attacked by religious reformers.

Heart in art --- Christian art and symbolism --- Sacred Heart, Devotion to --- Christianity and culture --- 248.159.24 --- Contextualization (Christian theology) --- Culture and Christianity --- Inculturation (Christian theology) --- Indigenization (Christian theology) --- Culture --- Heart of Jesus, Devotion to --- June devotions --- Sacred Heart of Jesus, Devotion to --- Art, Christian --- Art, Ecclesiastical --- Arts in the church --- Christian symbolism --- Ecclesiastical art --- Symbolism and Christian art --- Religious art --- Symbolism --- Church decoration and ornament --- 248.159.24 Devotie tot het Heilig Hart van Jezus Christus. Heilig Bloed. Uitboeting --- Devotie tot het Heilig Hart van Jezus Christus. Heilig Bloed. Uitboeting --- History --- Symbolism in art --- Heart in art. --- Christian art and symbolism - Mexico - Modern period, 1500 --- -Sacred Heart, Devotion to - Mexico - History - 18th century --- Christianity and culture - Mexico - History - 18th century