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Informationen zum Autor Rebecca J. Lester is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Washington University. Klappentext "A stunning first book! Jesus In Our Wombs is a haunting ethnography with fresh theoretical insights. Blending psychoanalytic theories with postmodern imageries! Lester demonstrates that the body is both a source and object of analysis. This is a model ethnography."-Vicki Ruiz! author of From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in the Twentieth-Century America "In Jesus In Our Wombs ! Rebecca Lester uses her rich! evocative ethnography of the first year experiences of nuns-in-training to explore the formation and transformation of selves! the relationships of bodily practices! and the centrality of gender to these intertwined processes of self-formation and embodiment. This work will spark renewed interest in the potential of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic theories of change to offer insights for crucial theoretical issues in anthropology and the social sciences more generally. A superb book."-Dorothy Hodgson! author of The Church of Women: Gendered Encounters between Maasai and Missionaries "This study of young Mexican nuns in their first year of training is a thought provoking and ethnographically rich work that will be an important contribution to the anthropological study of religion! gender! and embodiment. Through her careful analysis of the ways the postulates negotiate their training intellectually! emotionally! and bodily! Lester provides unique insights into the religious processes of personal transformation. A beautifully observed ethnography of life in a Catholic convent."-Joel Robbins! author of Becoming Sinners: Christianity and Moral Torment in a Papua New Guinea Society Zusammenfassung 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. This book considers how these aspiring nuns learn to experience God by cultivating an altered experience of their own female bodies. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: Contexts 1. Female Bodies and the Touch of God 2. The Siervas 3. Religious Formation Part Two: Becoming Women in Christ 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 Part Three: Articulations 12. Mexican Modernities 13. Bodies and Selves: Theorizing Embodiment Appendix: Glossary of Catholic Terms and Selected Central Prayers References Index ...
