| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "To Overcome Oneself" -- 1. The Jesuit Spiritual Exercises: Conquest of the Self, Conquest of the World -- 2. Women's Devotional Labor -- 3. Consolation Philosophy -- 4. Evangelization and Consolation: Or, Philosophy in the Mission Field -- 5. Facts: Houses, Books, and Other Remains -- 6. Colonial Indifference? Another Approach to the Colonial Other -- 7. A Heart-Shaped World -- Conclusion: Re-membering the Past -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
To Overcome Oneself offers a novel retelling of the emergence of the Western concept of "modern self," demonstrating how the struggle to forge a self was enmeshed in early modern Catholic missionary expansion. Examining the practices of Catholics in Europe and New Spain from the 1520s through the 1760s, the book treats Jesuit techniques of self-formation, namely spiritual exercises and confessional practices, and the relationships between spiritual directors and their subjects. Catholics on both sides of the Atlantic were folded into a dynamic that shaped new concepts of self and, in t |
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16th century |
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17th century |
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18th century |
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anthropology |
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catholic missionary expansion |
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catholic |
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christian institutions |
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christian organizations |
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christianity |
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god and religion |
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history |
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humanity |
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intellectual tradition |
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jesuit meditation |
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jesuit thought |
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jesuits |
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latin america |
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mind and body |
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missionary colonialism |
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missionary |
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modern self |
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new spain |
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religion |
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self transformation |
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social reality |
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spiritual directors |
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spiritual exercises |
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spiritual practices |
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spiritual |
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transcend self |
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western intellectual tradition |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Ignatius, of Loyola, Saint, 1491-1556. Exercitia spiritualia.
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Jesuits -- Spiritual life.
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| SUBJECT |
Jesuits fast |
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Jesuiten gnd |
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Exercitia spiritualia (Ignatius, of Loyola, Saint) fast |
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Spiritual exercises.
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Self -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Self (Philosophy)
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RELIGION -- Institutions & Organizations.
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HISTORY -- Latin America -- General.
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Self (Philosophy)
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Self -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
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Spiritual exercises
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Spiritual life
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Geistliches Leben
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Ich-Bewusstsein
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| Genre/Form |
devotional literature.
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Devotional literature
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Devotional literature.
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Littérature de dévotion.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780520955042 |
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0520955048 |
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1299587860 |
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9781299587861 |
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