Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-329) and index.
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 struggle to follow what they believe to be the will of God.
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Jesus in our wombs.
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Monastic and religious life of women-- Mexico-- Psychology.
Postulancy-- Psychology.
Women-- Mexico-- Social conditions-- Psychological aspects.