Preaching Power

by Charles A. Witschorik

Book Overview

This book uses a gender perspective to examine sermons and other officially endorsed discourses of the Catholic Church in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Mexico City. Analyzing the different ways that, over time, gendered images, metaphors, and hagiographical examples were used in sermons and other documents, the book examines how the church negotiated challenges to its cultural and ideological hegemony. Beginning with sermons from the early eighteenth...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1620327171
• ISBN13: 9781620327173
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Pickwick Publications
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"