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Jesus in our wombs : embodying modernity in a Mexican convent / Rebecca J. Lester.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; 5.Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2005.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 344 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780520938205
  • 0520938208
  • 1598755331
  • 9781598755336
  • 1417593334
  • 9781417593330
  • 0520242661
  • 9780520242661
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Jesus in our wombs.DDC classification:
  • 255/.9/00972 22
LOC classification:
  • BX4220.M4 L47 2005eb
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  • online - EBSCO
  • 73.59
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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.
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  • digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)131441

Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-329) and index.

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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.

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.