[PDF.38kw] False Mystics: Deviant Orthodoxy in Colonial Mexico (Engendering Latin America)

False Mystics provides a history of popular religion, race, and gender in colonial Mexico focusing on questions of spiritual and social rebellion and conformity. Nora E. Jaffary examines more than one hundred trials of “false mystics” whom the Mexican Inquisition prosecuted in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. While the accused experienced many of the same phenomena as bona fide mystics—visions, sacred illness, and bouts of demonic p...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.False Mystics: Deviant Orthodoxy in Colonial Mexico (Engendering Latin America)   |  Nora E. Jaffary.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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