Keywords
history of mystic
cultural history
mystic body
baroque body
XVII century
religious writing
pleasantness and disgust
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Abstract
In the XVII century, the control of the body was essential in the foundation of the social order in Nueva Granada. The practice of religious rules must integrate the body into the spiritual experience, keeping away any reality that could take it to sin. However, the public character of experience of faith, introduced by the Counter-Reformation gave a new focus to the body but as a mystic body –suffering, hurted, sorrowing-, which, through hagiography written in Nueva Granada. The imitation of Jesus virtues and the practice of the Sacraments converted it in the axis of configuration of the social body.The journal Memoria y Sociedad is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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