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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lester, Rebecca J., 1969- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2005.
Colección:Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; 5.
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.
RELIGION > Institutions & Organizations.
Monastic and religious life of women > Psychology
Women > Social conditions > Psychological aspects
Nonnen.
Etnografie.
Rooms-Katholieke Kerk.
Mexico
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Female bodies and the touch of God
  • 2. 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.

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