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Author Chowning, Margaret

Title Rebellious nuns : the troubled history of a Mexican convent, 1752-1863 / Margaret Chowning
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (x, 296 pages)
Contents Introduction; 1. An Ill-fated Convent for a Pious Town; 2. The First Crisis in the Convent (1756-1762): Reforming Abbesses and Rebellious Nuns; 3. "Seminary of Discord": La Purísima under Phelipa de San Antonio, 1769-1772; 4. "To live happily and in peace within . . . their enclosure": Changing Relationships among Bishops, Abbesses, and Nuns, 1772-1792; 5. Phelipa's Vision Triumphant: The Abolition of the Vida Común; 6. La Purísima after Independence: Toward Extinction; Epilogue: The Convent of La Purísima Concepción in Post-Reform Mexico; Appendix: Bishops and Abbesses, 1756-1863
Summary Nuns are hardly associated with rebellion and turmoil. However convents have often been the scenes of conflict and the author has discovered documents that allow an intimate look at two crises that destroyed a convent in Mexico. Chowning highlights the complicated dynamics of having committed your life to God and community
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Purísima Concepción (Convent : San Miguel el Grande, Guanajuato, Mexico) -- History
Purísima Concepción (Convent : San Miguel el Grande, Guanajuato, Mexico)
Convents -- Mexico -- Guanajuato -- History
RELIGION -- Institutions & Organizations.
Convents.
Mexico -- Guanajuato.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
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