{"product_id":"brides-of-christ-asunci-n-lavrin-9780804752831","title":"Brides of Christ: Conventual Life in Colonial Mexico","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrides of Christ\u003c\/i\u003e 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. Lavrin 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. Individual chapters deal with issues such as sexuality and the challenges to chastity in the cloisters and the little-known subject of the nuns' own writings as expressions of their spirituality. The foundation of convents for indigenous women receives special attention, because such religious communities existed nowhere else in the Spanish empire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Asunci Lavrin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0804752834\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804752831\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/13\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 528\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.94h x 6.58w x 1.31d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/04\/2008 pg. 17\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2008 pg. 24","brand":"Asunci Lavrin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43981259407615,"sku":"9780804752831","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2543b325-fce4-4196-abea-ca2e85e7d4fa.jpg?v=1683254537","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/brides-of-christ-asunci-n-lavrin-9780804752831","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}