Jesus in Our Wombs : Embodying Modernity in a Mexican Convent.

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In Jesus in Our Wombs, Rebecca J. Lester takes us behind the walls of a Roman Catholic convent in central Mexico to explore the lives, training, and experiences of a group of postulants - young women in the first stage of religious training as nuns. Lester, who conducted eighteen months of fieldwork...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lester, Rebecca J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2001.
Temas:
Monastic and religious life of women > Mexico > Psychology.
Postulancy > Psychology.
Women > Mexico > Social conditions > Psychological aspects.
Vie religieuse et monastique féminine > Mexique > Psychologie.
Postulat (Religion) > Psychologie.
Femmes > Mexique > Conditions sociales > Aspect psychologique.
Monastic and religious life of women > Psychology
Women > Social conditions > Psychological aspects
Mexico
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Female Bodies and the Touch of God; 2 The Siervas; 3 Religious Formation; 4 Brokenness: Restless in My Own Skin; 5 Belonging: Sisters in Arms; 6 Containment: Producing the Interior; 7 Regimentation: Making the Mindful Body; 8 Self-Critique: Diagnosing the Soul; 9 Surrender: Turning It Over to God; 10 Re/Collection: The Temporal Contours of the Self; 11 Changing the Subject: Transformations; 12 Mexican Modernities; 13 Bodies and Selves: Theorizing Embodiment; Appendix: Glossary of Catholic Terms and Selected Central Prayers; References.
  • Index.

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