Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : erotic mysticism 1890s-1920s : "the worst moral stigma"
  • The context of non-theistic erotic mysticism : positivist and Catholic discourses in turn-of-the-nineteenth-century Latin America
  • Theories of non-theistic mysticism in essayistic prose : Carlos Díaz Duffo (Mexico 1861-1941) and Manuel Díaz Rodríguez (Venezuela 1871-1927)
  • Decadence under cover : resurrecting Resurrección (Colombia) by José María Rivas Groot
  • Death and the feminine erotic : La Rosa Muerta (The dead rose; 1914) by Zoila Aurora Cáceres (Peru)
  • A Byzantine manifesto on erotic pluralism : El Evangelio del amor (The gospel of love; 1922) by Enrique Gómez Carrillo
  • Concluding thoughts : subversion, transcendence, and the ongoing quest for blissful unity.