%0 Journal Article
%T Mary as Mother in the Flores de Mayo in Poblacion, Oslob
%A Patricia Marion Y. Lopez
%J -
%D 2016
%X The paper reflects on the meanings of the Flores de Mayo ritual as performed in a town on the southeastern coast of Cebu through the examination of Mary as a ¡°semantically open¡± symbol. The essay illustrates how ideas about Mary are constructed through the discourse of the Church and are in turn, reinforced through a Church-instituted and regulated ritual. An analysis of selected elements of the ritual however, reveals that the symbol of Mary has the potential to hold ¡°other¡± kinds of meanings that slip in between ¡°official¡± and ¡°unofficial¡± discourses, highlighting how Mary continues to be a negotiated field between church authorities and the popular faithful. Keywords: Marian devotion, ritual, Ceb
%K Marian devotion
%K ritual
%K Cebu
%U http://journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/humanitiesdiliman/article/view/4932