Embodying the sacred : women mystics in seventeenth-century Lima / Nancy E. van Deusen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Van Deusen, Nancy E., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women mystics--Peru--Lima--History--17th century.

Women mystics.

Mysticism--Peru--Lima--History--17th century.

Mysticism.

History.

Peru--Lima.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 272 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.

Summary:

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Material and immaterial embodiment

Rosa de Lima and the imitatio morum

Reading the body: mystical theology and spiritual actualization in early seventeenth-century Lima

Living in an (im)material world: Angela de Carranza as a reliquary

The relational self

Carrying the cross of Christ: donadas in seventeenth-century Lima

María Jacinta Montoya, Nicolás de Ayllón, and the unmaking of an Indian Saint in late seventeenth-century Peru

Amparada de mi libertad: Josefa Portocarrero Laso de la Vega and the meaning of free will.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Van Deusen, Nancy E. Embodying the sacred.

ISBN:

9780822369950

0822369958

9780822369899

0822369893

OCLC:

967188014