Nancy E van Deusen

Embodying the Sacred

Women Mystics in Seventeenth-Century Lima

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Produktbeschreibung

Nancy E. van Deusen is Professor of History at Queen’s University; author of Global Indios: The Indigenous Struggle for Justice in Sixteenth-Century Spain, also published by Duke University Press,¿and Between the Sacred and the Worldly: The Institutional and Cultural Practice of Recogimiento in Colonial Lima; and editor of¿The Souls of Purgatory: The Spiritual Diary of a Seventeenth-Century Afro-Peruvian Mystic, Ursula de Jesús.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780822369899
• ISBN-10: 0822369893
• Artikelnr.: 47355860

Autorenporträt

Nancy E. van Deusen is Professor of History at Queen’s University; author of Global Indios: The Indigenous Struggle for Justice in Sixteenth-Century Spain, also published by Duke University Press, and Between the Sacred and the Worldly: The Institutional and Cultural Practice of Recogimiento in Colonial Lima; and editor of The Souls of Purgatory: The Spiritual Diary of a Seventeenth-Century Afro-Peruvian Mystic, Ursula de Jesús.

Inhaltsangabe

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: Ángla de Carranza as a Reliquary  71
Part II. The Relational Self
4. Carrying the Cross of Christ: Donadas in Seventeenth-Century Lima  95
5. María Jacinta Montoya, Nicolás de Ayllón, 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