Embodying the Sacred : Women Mystics in Seventeenth-Century Lima /

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Through the lives of religious women in colonial Lima, a new understanding of the ways in which pious Catholic women engaged with material and immaterial notions of the sacred or were themselves objectified as conduits of the divine in spiritual narratives.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Van Deusen, Nancy E. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women mystics.
Mysticism.
HISTORY > Latin America > South America.
RELIGION > Christianity > Catholic.
Mysticisme > Perou > Lima > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Femmes mystiques > Perou > Lima > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Mysticism > Peru > Lima > History > 17th century.
Women mystics > Peru > Lima > History > 17th century.
Peru > Lima.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Description
Summary:Through the lives of religious women in colonial Lima, a new understanding of the ways in which pious Catholic women engaged with material and immaterial notions of the sacred or were themselves objectified as conduits of the divine in spiritual narratives.
Physical Description:1 online resource (280 pages): illustration
ISBN:9780822372288

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