False Mystics

Author : Nora E. Jaffary
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803225992

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False Mystics by Nora E. Jaffary Pdf

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 possession?the Mexican tribunal condemned them nevertheless. False Mystics examines why the Catholic church viewed the accused as deviants and argues that this categorization was due in part to unconventional aspects of their spirituality and in part to contemporary social anxieties over class and race mixing, transgressions of appropriate gendered behavior, and fears of Indian and African influences on orthodox Catholicism. Jaffary examines the transformations this category of heresy underwent between Spain and the New World and explores the relationship between accusations of "false" mysticism and contemporary notions of demonic possession, sickness, and mental illness. Jaffary adopts the perspectives of visionaries to examine the influence of colonial artwork on their spiritual imaginations and to trace the reasons that their spirituality diverged from conventional expressions of piety. False Mystics illuminates the challenges that popular religion and individual spirituality posed to both the institutional church and the colonial social order.

Author : Nora E. Jaffary
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173015496323

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False Mystics by Nora E. Jaffary Pdf

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 possession-the Mexican tribunal condemned them nevertheless.False Mystics examines why the Catholic church viewed the accused as deviants and argues that this categorization was due in part to unconventional aspects of their spirituality and in part to contemporary social anxieties over class and race mixing, transgressions of appropriate gendered behaviour, and fears of Indian and African influences on orthodox Catholicism. Jaffary examines the transformations this category of heresy underwent between Spain and the New World and explores the relationship between accusations of "false" mysticism and contemporary notions of demonic possession, sickness, and mental illness. Jaffary adopts the perspectives of visionaries to examine the influence of colonial artwork on their spiritual imaginations and to trace the reasons that their spirituality diverged from conventional expressions of piety. False Mystics illuminates the challenges that popular religion and individual spirituality posed to both the institutional church and the colonial social order.Nora E. Jaffary is an assistant professor of history at Concordia University in Montreal.

Author : Robert Alfred Vaughan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Mysticism
ISBN : UOM:39015005493377

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Hours with the Mystics by Robert Alfred Vaughan Pdf

Author : Robert Alfred Vaughan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Mysticism
ISBN : OXFORD:600092397

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Hours with the mystics: a contribution to the history of religious opinion. , revised by the author by Robert Alfred Vaughan Pdf

Author : Robert Alfred Vaughan
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4066339523333

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Hours with the Mystics by Robert Alfred Vaughan Pdf

"Hours with the Mystics" by Robert Alfred Vaughan. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Bernard DALGAIRNS (name in religion of John Dobrée Dalgairns.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018909421

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The German Mystics of the Fourteenth Century by Bernard DALGAIRNS (name in religion of John Dobrée Dalgairns.) Pdf

Author : Pini Dunner
Publisher : Toby Press Limited
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1592645100

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Mavericks, Mystics & False Messiahs by Pini Dunner Pdf

Profiles peculiar characters from biblical times to the present that have shaped the character of the Jewish people.

Author : Dom Savinien Louismet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Mysticism
ISBN : NYPL:33433068189186

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Mysticism, True and False by Dom Savinien Louismet Pdf

Author : John F. Chuchiak
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421403861

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The Inquisition in New Spain, 1536–1820 by John F. Chuchiak Pdf

The Inquisition! Just the word itself evokes, to the modern reader, endless images of torment, violence, corruption, and intolerance committed in the name of Catholic orthodoxy and societal conformity. But what do most people actually know about the Inquisition, its ministers, its procedures? This systematic, comprehensive look at one of the most important Inquisition tribunals in the New World reveals a surprisingly diverse panorama of actors, events, and ideas that came into contact and conflict in the central arena of religious faith. Edited and annotated by John F. Chuchiak IV, this collection of previously untranslated and unpublished documents from the Holy Office of the Inquisition in New Spain provides a clear understanding of how the Inquisition originated, evolved, and functioned in the colonial Spanish territories of Mexico and northern Central America. The three sections of documents lay out the laws and regulations of the Inquisition, follow examples of its day-to-day operations and procedures, and detail select trial proceedings. Chuchiak’s opening chapter and brief section introductions provide the social, historical, political, and religious background necessary to comprehend the complex and generally misunderstood institutions of the Inquisition and the effect it has had on societal development in modern-day Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Honduras. Featuring fifty-eight newly translated documents, meticulous annotations, and trenchant contextual analysis, this documentary history is an indispensable resource for anyone seeking to understand the Inquisition in general and its nearly three-hundred-year reign in the New World in particular.

Author : Gary Commins
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498279819

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If Only We Could See by Gary Commins Pdf

This analytical, polemical, and personal book creates a lively interaction between mysticism and activism. Looking beyond superficial links between spirituality and justice, it creates an in-depth engagement of mysticism as an inner revolution and activism as a mirroring socioeconomic transfiguration. Based on the twin premises of the mystical tradition and Social Gospel-liberation theology that those who experience God in prayer or engage in social action ought to be our primary theologians, it examines what these two traditions say about theology, to each other, and to us. The broad synthesis that results from this fascinating dialogue brings new insights into mysticism, activism, theology, and ethics, and casts a unique light on how we pray and live. If Only We Could See brings together a wealth of spiritual material from the early Desert, medieval mystics, and modern spiritual writers alongside an equally rich resource of abolitionists, anti-apartheid activists, civil rights leaders, nonviolent change agents, and peacemakers. The results yield valuable insights for a theology that challenges every personal and political status quo.

Author : Gérard Vallée
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780889205734

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Florence Nightingale on Mysticism and Eastern Religions by Gérard Vallée Pdf

Mysticism and Eastern Religions, the fourth volume in the Collected Works and the third on Nightingale’s religion, begins with the publication for the first time of Florence Nightingale’s Notes on Devotional Authors of the Middle Ages, translations from and comments on the medieval (and some later) mystics who nourished her own life of faith. Next come her annotations of and comments on the Imitation of Christ, a book to which she turned in times of distress. The largest part of the volume consists of her Letters from Egypt, written 1849-50, a significant period in her own intellectual and spiritual development. Here we provide (for the first time) complete publication and include (also for the first time) material preparatory for the trip and reflections on it over the later years. The last section reports Nightingale’s correspondence and journal notes on Eastern religions, mainly Hinduism. Currently, Volumes 1 to 11 are available in e-book version by subscription or from university and college libraries through the following vendors: Canadian Electronic Library, Ebrary, MyiLibrary, and Netlibrary.

Author : Stephen Haliczer
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195148633

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Between Exaltation and Infamy by Stephen Haliczer Pdf

Using case-studies and biographies, the author examines women's mysticism in 16th- and 17th-century Spain and investigates the spiritual forces that provided women with a way to transcend the control of the male-dominated Catholic Church.

Author : A. Devine
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 681 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781177508940

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A manual of mystical theology by A. Devine Pdf

Author : A.P. Coudert,R.H. Popkin,G.M. Weiner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789401590525

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Leibniz, Mysticism and Religion by A.P. Coudert,R.H. Popkin,G.M. Weiner Pdf

Some scholars in the history of ideas have had a growing interest in examining Leibniz's many discussions ofvarious aspects of religion, Christian, Jewish and far eastern. Leibniz, with his voracious interest and concern for so many aspects of human intellectual and spiritual life, read a wide variety of books on the various religions of mankind. He also was in personal contact with many of those who espoused orthodox and non-orthodox views. He annotated his copies of many books on religious subjects. And he was working on schemes for reuniting the various Catholic and Protestant churches in Europe. Studies on Leibniz's views on Judaism, on the Kabbalah, on Chinese thought have been appearing over the last decades. It was decided by some of us that since there has been a growing interest in this side of Leibniz's thought it would be a good idea to bring together a group of scholars working on different aspects of Leibniz's views on religion, mysticism and spiritualism, in order to h~ve them present papers on their current researches, and to have the opportunity for lengthy discussion, formal and informal, in the most pleasant academic ambiance of the William Andrews Clark Library in Los Angeles. Under the sponsorship of the UCLA Center for Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Studies, a workshop conference was held November 18-19, 1994.

Author : Marie-Florine Bruneau
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791436616

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Women Mystics Confront the Modern World by Marie-Florine Bruneau Pdf

Situates the female mystical tradition within the context of the epistemological shift which occurred at the dawn of the modern world.