The absent body: the place of the mystical body in seventeenth-century Nueva Granada
In the XVII century, the control of the body was essential in the foundation of the social order in Nueva Granada. The practice of religious rules must integrate the body into the spiritual experience, keeping away any reality that could take it to sin. However, the public character of experienc...
| Autor Principal: | Quevedo Alvarado, María Piedad |
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| Formato: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
| Idioma: | spa eng |
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Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
2014
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http://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/memoysociedad/article/view/7891 |
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In the XVII century, the control of the body was essential in the foundation of the social order in Nueva Granada. The practice of religious rules must integrate the body into the spiritual experience, keeping away any reality that could take it to sin. However, the public character of experience of faith, introduced by the Counter-Reformation gave a new focus to the body but as a mystic body –suffering, hurted, sorrowing-, which, through hagiography written in Nueva Granada. The imitation of Jesus virtues and the practice of the Sacraments converted it in the axis of configuration of the social body. |
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