This course will consider the contextual dynamics of power and agency that contributed to the establishment of Our Lady of Guadalupe as a powerful symbol for diverse communities across chronological and geographical boundaries. Students will explore narratives, rituals, faith practices, and visit historical sites in Mexico. Facilitated through a protestant feminist /Mujerista perspective, this course will be a travel seminar to Mexico and run in a seminar style with the instructor as facilitator for critical engagement of readings, sharing of experiences, and contextual deconstruction/construction of methods, theories and 'official" historical understandings.