BOOK REVIEW: Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela. COLONIAL ANGELS: NARRATIVES OF GENDER AND SPIRITUALITY IN MEXICO, 1580-1750. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000. and Mary Giles. WOMEN IN THE INQUISITION: SPAIN AND THE NEW WORLD BY MARY GILES. BALTIMORE. MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. and Madre Maria de San Jose. Edited and translated by Kathleen A. Myers and Amanda Powell. A WILD COUNTRY OUT IN THE GARDEN: THE SPIRITUAL JOURNALS OF A COLONIAL MEXICAN NUN. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000.

NWSA Journal ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-207
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Rodriguez Kessler
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
San Jose ◽  
Indiana University ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
Maria De San Jose

Vocation and Enclosure in Colonial Nuns’ Spiritual Autobiographies

Renascence ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 155-172
Author(s):  
Teresa Hanckock-Parmer ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
San Jose ◽  
Spiritual Meaning ◽  
Redemptive Suffering ◽  
Spiritual Autobiographies ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Religious Meaning ◽  
Maria De San Jose

This article examines the discourse of enclosure utilized by Maria de San Jose (1656-1719, Puebla), Jeronima Nava y Saavedra (1669-1727, Bogota), and Francisca Josefa de Castillo (1671-1742, Tunja, Colombia) in their spiritual autobiographies. Despite dissimilar personal vocation narratives, these Hispanic nuns embraced enclosure as a tool of continuing spiritual advancement, both before and after actual profession of monastic vows. They portrayed the cloister simultaneously as connubial bedchamber and isolated hermitage, thus ascribing Baroque religious meaning to ancient anchoritic models through intersecting discourses of desert solitude, redemptive suffering, Eucharistic devotion, and nuptial mysticism. To attain ideal enclosure for self and others, these nuns advocated for reform in New World convents, which often reproduced worldly hierarchies, conflicts, and values. Enclosure, more than a symbolic vow or ecclesiastical mandate, constituted a formative practice that fostered correct action and attitude in nuns’ lives; these women conscientiously sought a cloistered life through which they cultivated holiness and created new spiritual meaning.

Book Review: Reappraising the Environmental Revolution: A Review Article The Limits of Altruism by G. HARDIN. Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press. 1978. pp. 154. £7.00 Current Issues in US Environmental Policy edited by P. R. PORTNEY. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press for Resources for the Future. 1978. pp. 207. £10.50 H/B; £3.50 P/B Environmental Improvement Through Economic Incentives by F. R. ANDERSON et al. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press for Resources for the Future. 1977. pp. 194. £9.00 H/B; £3.25 P/B Pollution and Policy - A Case Essay on California and Federal Experience with Motor Vehicle Air Pollution 1940-1975 by J. KRIER and E. URSIN. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press. 1978. pp. 401. £11.25 Air Pollution and Human Health by L. LAVE and E. SESKIN. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press for Resources for the Future. 1978. pp. 368. £15.75 Environmental Assessment - Approaching Maturity by S. BENDIX and H. GRAHAM. Chichester: Ellis Horwood Ltd., distributed by John Wiley and Sons Ltd. 1978. pp. 288. £12.60 Principles for Local Environmental Management by P. ROWE et al. Cambridge, Mass: Ballinger Publishing Co., distributed by John Wiley and Sons Ltd. 1978. pp.272. £10.40

Urban Studies ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 349-353
Author(s):  
David Pearce
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Motor Vehicle ◽  
Economic Incentives ◽  
Review Article ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Indiana University ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
The Future
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