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Nancy E. van Deusen is Professor of History at Queen’s University; author of Global Indios: The Indigenous Struggle for Justice in Sixteenth-Century Spain, also published by Duke University Press,¿and Between the Sacred and the Worldly: The Institutional and Cultural Practice of Recogimiento in Colonial Lima; and editor of¿The Souls of Purgatory: The Spiritual Diary of a Seventeenth-Century Afro-Peruvian Mystic, Ursula de Jesús.
List of contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
Part I. Material and Immaterial Embodiment
1. Rosa de Lima and the Imitatio Morum 23
2. Reading the Body: Mystical Theology and Spiritual Actualization in Early Seventeenth-Century Lima 47
3. Living in an (Im)Material World: Ángla de Carranza as a Reliquary 71
Part II. The Relational Self
4. Carrying the Cross of Christ: Donadas in Seventeenth-Century Lima 95
5. María Jacinta Montoya, Nicolás de Ayllón, and the Unmaking of an Indian Saint in Late Seventeenth-Century Peru 117
6. Amparada de mi libertad: Josefa Portocarrero Laso de la Vega and the Meaning of Free Will 143
Conclusion 167
Notes 175
Bibliography 231
Index 259
About the author
Nancy E. van Deusen
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.
