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Embodying the Sacred

Women Mystics in Seventeenth-Century Lima

  • Paperback
  • 240 pages
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.8 cm

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In seventeenth-century Lima, pious Catholic women gained profound theological understanding and enacted expressions of spiritual devotion by engaging with a wide range of sacred texts and objects, as well as with one another, their families, and ecclesiastical authorities. In Embodying the Sacred, Nancy E. van Deusen considers how women created and navigated a spiritual existence within the colonial city's complex social milieu. Through close readings of diverse primary sources, van Deusen shows that these women recognized the divine or were objectified as conduits of holiness in innovative and powerful ways: dressing a religious statue, performing charitable acts, sharing interiorized spiritual visions, constructing auto/biographical texts, or offering their hair or fingernails to disciples as living relics. In these manifestations of piety, each of these women transcended the limited outlets available to them for expressing and enacting their faith in colonial Lima, and transformed early modern Catholicism in meaningful ways."
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  • Author

    Nancy E. Van Deusen

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    Duke University Press

  • Published

    December 2017

  • Weight

    386g

  • Page Count

    240

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9780822369950

  • ISBN-10

    0822369958

  • Eden Code

    4508231

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