Document Type
Report
Publication Date
7-2024
Abstract
Rebecca Janzen, an associate professor in the languages, literatures and cultures department at the University of South Carolina, received the 2024 visiting scholar fellowship in the Marian Library. Janzen conducted research for her book Mining Religion: Marian Shrines and Extraction Across the Americas.
“This project posits that Marian devotion at shrines near mines offers a form of labor protection as well as a space for grief and celebration,” she wrote in her application. “To make this argument, Mining Religion analyzes photographs, religious objects and records of lay religious associations from Marian shrines and compares them with archival materials from mining operations at the same sites.”
Janzen, who has a doctorate in Spanish from the University of Toronto, also addressed Marian devotion in her 2013 dissertation, “Collective Bodies and Collective Change: Blindness, Pilgrimage, Motherhood and Miracles in Twentieth Century Mexican Literature.”
eCommons Citation
Janzen, Rebecca, "2024 Visiting Scholar Reflection: Rebecca Janzen" (2024). Marian Fellowships and Other Sponsored Research in the Marian Library. 6.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/ml_fellowships/6
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