Embodying the sacred : women mystics in seventeenth-century Lima

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Embodying the sacred : women mystics in seventeenth-century Lima

Nancy E. van Deusen

Duke University Press, 2018

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-258) and index

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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 autobiographical 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 each transformed early modern Catholicism in meaningful ways.

目次

Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Part I. Material and Immaterial Embodiment 1. Rosa de Lima and the Imitatio Morum 23 2. Reading the Body: Mystical Theology and Spiritual Actualization in Early Seventeenth-Century Lima 47 3. Living in an (Im)Material World: Angla de Carranza as a Reliquary 71 Part II. The Relational Self 4. Carrying the Cross of Christ: Donadas in Seventeenth-Century Lima 95 5. Maria Jacinta Montoya, Nicolas de Ayllon, and the Unmaking of an Indian Saint in Late Seventeenth-Century Peru 117 6. Amparada de mi libertad: Josefa Portocarrero Laso de la Vega and the Meaning of Free Will 143 Conclusion 167 Notes 175 Bibliography 231 Index 259

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