Laywomen and the Making of Colonial Catholicism in New Spain, 1630-1790

AvJessica L. Delgado

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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In the first history of laywomen and the church in colonial Mexico, Jessica L. Delgado shows how laywomen participated in and shaped religious culture in significant ways by engaging creatively with gendered theology about women, sin, and guilt in their interactions with church sacraments, institutions, and authorities. Taking a thematic approach, using stories of individuals, institutions, and ideas, Delgado illuminates the diverse experiences of urban and rural women of Indigenous, Spanish, and African descent. By centering the choices these women made in their devotional lives and in their relationships to the aspects of the church they regularly encountered, this study expands and challenges our understandings of the church's role in colonial society, the role of religion in gendered and racialized power, and the role of ordinary women in the making of colonial religious culture.

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Utgivningsdatum:2018-08-16
Mått:158 x 235 x 20 mm
Vikt:560 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cambridge Latin American Studies
Antal sidor:294
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781107199408

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Jessica L. Delgado is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion Princeton University, New Jersey.

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'Jessica L. Delgado's ingenious exploration of many different women's experiences and engagements with the authority, mechanisms and practices of the Catholic Church illuminates what these women came to shape: the moral grammar and spiritual underpinnings of an entire society. Informed by wide, cross-disciplinary learning, Delgado's 'troubling' of devotion, and of all that constituted spiritual virtue and contagion in mid-colonial Mexico, is a breakthrough.' Kenneth Mills, University of Michigan

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Part I. Introduction. Troubling Devotion: Laywomen and Religious Culture in New Spain: 1. Sacramental learning; 2. Public and scandalous sin; 3. Ambivalent witnesses and local inquisitions; Part II. Introduction. Places and Practices of Cloister: 4. Cloister for the poor and virtuous; 5. Cloister for the unruly and unhappy; 6. In the convent but not of it; Epilogue: laywomen making colonial Catholicism.