'Van Deusen is deft at uncovering fascinating and little-known women whose lives reveal a spectrum of behaviors, beliefs, and activities that shed new light on early modern devotional practices.' - Erin Kathleen Rowe, HAHR 'This is a powerful monograph that creatively embraces the fragmentary and contradictory texts and objects that mystical women left behind.' - Karen B. This work is a notable contribution to understanding the complexities of women’s spirituality.' - Asunción Lavrin, Catholic Historical Review 'Nancy Van Deusen offers a suggestive and rewarding path to analyze how women felt and embodied their relation to God and the divine in seventeenth-century Lima. Particularly valuable for giving voice (and body) to female figures and their devotional models.' - Gabrielle Greenlee, H-LatAm, H-Net Reviews 'Important reading for those interested in women’s expressions of devotion in colonial Lima and modes of theorizing spiritual practices more generally. In these manifestations of piety, each of these women transcended the limited outlets available to them for expressing and enacting their faith in colonial Lima, and each transformed early modern Catholicism in meaningful ways. Through close readings of diverse primary sources, van Deusen shows that these women recognized the divine-or were objectified as conduits of holiness-in innovative and powerful ways: dressing a religious statue, performing charitable acts, sharing interiorized spiritual visions, constructing autobiographical texts, or offering their hair or fingernails to disciples as living relics. van Deusen considers how women created and navigated a spiritual existence within the colonial city's complex social milieu. In seventeenth-century Lima, pious Catholic women gained profound theological understanding and enacted expressions of spiritual devotion by engaging with a wide range of sacred texts and objects, as well as with one another, their families, and ecclesiastical authorities. Labor and Working-Class History Association.Association for Middle East Women's Studies.Author Resources from University Presses.Permissions Information for Journal Authors.Journals fulfilled by DUP Journal Services.

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