Reliving Golgotha: The Passion Play of Iztapalapa

by William H. Waller and Richard C. Trexler

Book Overview

In Reliving Golgotha, Richard Trexler brings an important new perspective to religious spectacle in an engrossing exploration of the annual passion play at Iztapalapa, the largest and poorest borough of Mexico City.

After tracing the history of European passion theater, Trexler examines the process by which representations of the passion were established in the Americas, especially in New Spain. Indeed, the Iztapalapan pageant can...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674010647
• ISBN13: 9780674010642
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.4"