"False Mystics" provides a history of popular religion, race, and
gender in colonial Mexico focusing on questions of spiritual and
social rebellion and conformity. Nora E. Jaffary examines more than
one hundred trials of "false mystics" whom the Mexican Inquisition
prosecuted in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. While the
accused experienced many of the same phenomena as bona fide
mystics--visions, sacred illness, and bouts of demonic
possession--the Mexican tribunal condemned them nevertheless. ""
"False Mystics" examines why the Catholic church viewed the accused
as deviants and argues that this categorization was due in part to
unconventional aspects of their spirituality and in part to
contemporary social anxieties over class and race mixing,
transgressions of appropriate gendered behavior, and fears of
Indian and African influences on orthodox Catholicism. Jaffary
examines the transformations this category of heresy underwent
between Spain and the New World and explores the relationship
between accusations of "false" mysticism and contemporary notions
of demonic possession, sickness, and mental illness. Jaffary adopts
the perspectives of visionaries to examine the influence of
colonial artwork on their spiritual imaginations and to trace the
reasons that their spirituality diverged from conventional
expressions of piety. "False Mystics" illuminates the challenges
that popular religion and individual spirituality posed to both the
institutional church and the colonial social order.
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