Jesus in Our Wombs: Embodying Modernity in a Mexican Convent

by Rebecca Lester

Book Overview

In Jesus in Our Wombs, Rebecca J. Lester takes us behind the walls of a Roman Catholic convent in central Mexico to explore the lives, training, and experiences of a group of postulants--young women in the first stage of religious training as nuns. Lester, who conducted eighteen months of fieldwork in the convent, provides a rich ethnography of these young women's journeys as they wrestle with doubts, fears, ambitions, and setbacks in their...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520242688
• ISBN13: 9780520242685
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.6" x 9.1"