TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lavrín,Asunción
ED  - UPSO eCollections (University Press Scholarship Online)
TI  - Brides of Christ: conventual life in colonial Mexico 
SN  - 0804787514
AV  - BX4220.M4 L38 2008
U1  - 271/.90072 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Stanford, Calif.
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - Monastic and religious life of women
KW  - Mexico
KW  - History
KW  - fast
KW  - RELIGION / Institutions & Organizations
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Church history
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [445]-484) and index; The path to the convent -- The novice becomes a nun -- The spiritual meanings of religious life -- Government, hierarchies, and ceremonials -- Daily life in the convent -- Body, soul, and death -- Sexuality : a challenge to chastity -- Indian brides of Christ -- The struggle over vida común -- Writing in the cloisters
N2  - This book invites the modern reader to follow the histories of colonial Mexican nuns inside the cloisters where they pursued a religious vocation or sought shelter from the world. It provides a complete overview of conventual life, including the early signs of vocation, the decision to enter a convent, profession, spiritual guidelines and devotional practices, governance, ceremonials, relations with male authorities and confessors, living arrangements, servants, sickness, and death rituals
UR  - http://stanford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.11126/stanford/9780804752831.001.0001/upso-9780804752831
UR  - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1055338
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0714/2007012402.html
ER  -