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Becoming a New Self - Practices of Belief in Early Modern Catholicism (Hardcover)
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Becoming a New Self - Practices of Belief in Early Modern Catholicism (Hardcover)
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In Becoming a New Self, Moshe Sluhovsky examines the diffusion of
spiritual practices among lay Catholics in early modern Europe. By
offering a close examination of early modern Catholic penitential
and meditative techniques, Sluhovsky makes the case that these
practices promoted the idea of achieving a new self through the
knowing of oneself. Practices such as the examination of
conscience, general confession, and spiritual exercises, which
until the 1400s had been restricted to monastic elites, breached
the walls of monasteries in the period that followed. Thanks in
large part to Franciscans and Jesuits, lay urban elites--both men
and women--gained access to spiritual practices whose goal was to
enhance belief and create new selves. Using Michel Foucault's
writing on the hermeneutics of the self, and the French
philosopher's intuition that the early modern period was a moment
of transition in the configurations of the self, Sluhovsky offers a
broad panorama of spiritual and devotional techniques of
self-formation and subjectivation.
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