Reading the Body
Mystical Theology and Spiritual Actualisation in Early Seventeenth‐Century Lima
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10199006 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nancy E Van Deusen (Queen's University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-27 |
| Publication date | 2009-02-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Religious History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-4227 • E-ISSN: 1467-9809 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-9809.2009.00744.x |
| OpenAlex | W2137642519 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
In early seventeenth‐century Lima, Peru, female visionaries composed texts of their bodies, and texts composed their bodies. This fact can be explained, in part, by the belief that an individual could gain access to and appropriate the language of God (His spiritus ) in distinct ways. Mystical narratives, stigmata, as well as the spoken words of enraptured visionaries communicating with absent souls were considered readable texts because the object to be read could be a book, a painting, or the body itself. Thus the reading of, and listening to, texts was parallel to Lima's visionaries entering a state of spiritual ecstasy ( arrobamiento ), and “reading” their bodies as living books, which perforce became a readable space
Active listening · Aesthetics · Art · Ecstasy · Linguistics · Literature · Mysticism · Narrative · Object (grammar · Painting · Reading (process · Theology · Visual arts · Communication · Early Modern Women Writers · Latin American history and culture · Philosophy · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,38 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2020 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |