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Jesus in our wombs : embodying modernity in a Mexican convent /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2005.
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| Colección: | Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ;
5. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 in the convent, provides a rich ethnography of these young women's journeys as they wrestle with doubts, fears, ambitions, and setbacks in their struggle to follow what they believe to be the will of God. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 344 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-329) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520938205 0520938208 1598755331 9781598755336 1417593334 9781417593330 0520242661 9780520242661 |