Laywomen and the making of colonial Catholicism in New Spain, 1630-1790 /
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, institutio...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2018]
|
| Series: | Cambridge Latin American studies.
|
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Troubling devotion: laywomen and religious culture in New Spain
- Sacramental learning
- Public and scandalous sin
- Ambivalent witnesses and local inquisitions
- Places and practices of cloister
- Cloister for the poor and virtuous
- In the convent but not of it
- Laywomen making colonial Catholicism.