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Cover 1 Title Page, Copyright 2 Contents 6 List of Figures 8 A Note on Sources and the Appendixes 10 Acknowledgments 12 Abbreviations 14 Introduction 18 1. Indigenous Nobility and Conventual Foundations 42 2. The Idea of Corpus Christi: Discursive Effects of Colonialism 59 3. Indigenous Women and Religious Life: Stereotype and Ambivalence 80 4. Biographies and Hagiographies: The Different Perspectives of Gender 102 5. Panegyric Sermons: Dialogic Spaces and Examples of Virtue 127 6. Letters from the Convent: Struggles through the Written Word 152 Epilogue 171 Appendix A. Selected Text from “Notes on Some of Our Deceased Sisters” 176 Appendix B. Selected Text from the Funeral Eulogy of Sor María Teodora de San Agustín 186 Appendix C. Selected Letters 190 Notes 200 Bibliography 222 Index 242 About the Author 248 Publisher:University of Arizona Press,Published:2013,ISBN:9780816538492,Related ISBN:9780816528530,Language:English,OCLC:1080551189 Sometime in the 1740s, Sor María Magdalena, an indigenous noblewoman living in one of only three convents in New Spain that allowed Indians to profess as nuns, sent a letter to Father Juan de Altamirano to ask for his help in getting church prelat

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Author

Catholic Church;Catholic Church.;Díaz, Mónica

Publisher

The University of Arizona Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780816528530

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, American Studies, Humanities