Embodying the Sacred by Nancy E Van Deusen
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.
"Important reading for those interested in women’s expressions of devotion in colonial Lima and modes of theorizing spiritual practices more generally. . . Particularly valuable for giving voice (and body) to female figures and their devotional models." -- Gabrielle Greenlee * H-LatAm, H-Net Reviews *
"Nancy Van Deusen offers a suggestive and rewarding path to analyze how women felt and embodied their relation to God and the divine in seventeenth-century Lima. . . . This work is a notable contribution to understanding the complexities of women’s spirituality." -- Asunción Lavrin * Catholic Historical Review *
"This is a powerful monograph that creatively embraces the fragmentary and contradictory texts and objects that mystical women left behind." -- Karen B. Graubart * American Historical Review *
"Van Deusen is deft at uncovering fascinating and little-known women whose lives reveal a spectrum of behaviors, beliefs, and activities that shed new light on early modern devotional practices." -- Erin Kathleen Rowe * HAHR *
"Nancy Van Deusen offers a suggestive and rewarding path to analyze how women felt and embodied their relation to God and the divine in seventeenth-century Lima. . . . This work is a notable contribution to understanding the complexities of women’s spirituality." -- Asunción Lavrin * Catholic Historical Review *
"This is a powerful monograph that creatively embraces the fragmentary and contradictory texts and objects that mystical women left behind." -- Karen B. Graubart * American Historical Review *
"Van Deusen is deft at uncovering fascinating and little-known women whose lives reveal a spectrum of behaviors, beliefs, and activities that shed new light on early modern devotional practices." -- Erin Kathleen Rowe * HAHR *
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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| ISBN 13 | 9780822369950 |
| ISBN 10 | 0822369958 |
| Title | Embodying the Sacred |
| Author | Nancy E Van Deusen |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Duke University Press |
| Year published | 2017-12-22 |
| Number of pages | 280 |
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