Embodying the Sacred

Women Mystics in Seventeenth-Century Lima

Nancy E. van Deusen (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

280 Seiten

2017
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-6995-0 (ISBN)

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Through the lives of religious women in colonial Lima, a new understanding of the ways in which pious Catholic women engaged with material and immaterial notions of the sacred or were themselves objectified as conduits of the divine in spiritual narratives.

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.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	30.01.2018
Zusatzinfo	1 illustration
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	386 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-8223-6995-8 / 0822369958
ISBN-13	978-0-8223-6995-0 / 9780822369950
Zustand	Neuware