The male body and Catholic piety in early modern Spain
Features of embodied female piety adduced from late medieval texts are now established categories of interpretation for religious experience in the early modern period. These include intense Eucharistic devotion in relationship to food culture, extreme food manipulation and exaggerated violence agai...
| Subtitles: | Special Issue: The Qur'an and affect |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Equinox Publishing
[2019]
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| In: |
Body and religion
Year: 2019, Volume: 3, Issue: 2, Pages: 129-148 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Spain
/ Catholicism
/ Man
/ Piety
/ Asceticism
/ Religious experience
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| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBH Iberian Peninsula KDB Roman Catholic Church |
| Further subjects: | B
embodied piety
B food and religion B religious asceticism B food culture |
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| Summary: | Features of embodied female piety adduced from late medieval texts are now established categories of interpretation for religious experience in the early modern period. These include intense Eucharistic devotion in relationship to food culture, extreme food manipulation and exaggerated violence against the physical self. However, evidence from documents by and about early modern religious men indicates that male and female ascetic piety had more in common than not during this period. Strategies of backgrounding or masking those practices when carried out by men made them less visible in comparison to those practised by women, due to gender inflections in religious politics. |
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| ISSN: | 2057-5831 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Body and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/bar.16250 |