| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 344 pages) : illustrations |
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Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; 5 |
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Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; 5.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-329) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Monastic and religious life of women -- Mexico -- Psychology
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Postulancy -- Psychology
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Women -- Mexico -- Social conditions -- Psychological aspects
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RELIGION -- Institutions & Organizations.
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Monastic and religious life of women -- Psychology
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Women -- Social conditions -- Psychological aspects
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Nonnen.
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Etnografie.
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Rooms-Katholieke Kerk.
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Mexico
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780520938205 |
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0520938208 |
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1598755331 |
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9781598755336 |
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1417593334 |
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9781417593330 |
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0520242661 |
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9780520242661 |
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