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Embodying the Sacred - Women Mystics in Seventeenth-Century Lima (Paperback)
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Embodying the Sacred - Women Mystics in Seventeenth-Century Lima (Paperback)
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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.
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