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The Captive's Position

Female Narrative, Male Identity, and Royal Authority in Colonial New England

By: Teresa A. Toulouse

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The Captive's Position

Female Narrative, Male Identity, and Royal Authority in Colonial New England

By: Teresa A. Toulouse

Why do narratives of Indian captivity emerge in New England between 1682 and 1707 and why are these texts, so centrally concerned with women's experience, supported and even written by a powerful group of Puritan ministers? In The Captive's Position, Teresa Toulouse argues for a new interpretation of the captivity narrative—one that takes into account the profound shifts in political and social authority and legitimacy that occurred in New England at the end of the seventeenth century. While North American narratives of Indian captivity had been written before this period by French priests and other European adventurers, those stories had focused largely on Catholic conversions and martyrdoms or male strategies for survival among the Indians. In contrast, the New England texts represented a colonial Protestant woman who was separated brutally from her family but who demonstrated qualities of religious acceptance, humility, and obedience until she was eventually returned to her own community. Toulouse explores how the female captive's position came to resonate so powerfully for traditional male elites in the second and third generation of the Massachusetts colony. Threatened by ongoing wars with Indians and French as well as by a range of royal English interventions in New England political and cultural life, figures such as Increase Mather, Cotton Mather, and John Williams perceived themselves to be equally challenged by religious and social conflicts within New England. By responding to and employing popular representations of female captivity, they were enabled to express their ambivalence toward the world of their fathers and toward imperial expansion and thereby to negotiate their own complicated sense of personal and cultural identity. Examining the captivity narratives of Mary Rowlandson, Hannah Dustan, Hannah Swarton, and John Williams (who comes to stand in for the female captive), Toulouse asserts the need to read these gendered texts as cultural products that variably engage, shape, and confound colonial attitudes toward both Europe and the local scene in Massachusetts. In doing so, The Captive's Position offers a new story of the rise and breakdown of orthodox Puritan captivities and a meditation on the relationship between dreams of authority and historical change.

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The Captive's Position

Female Narrative, Male Identity, and Royal Authority in Colonial New England

By: Teresa A. Toulouse

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Female Narrative, Male Identity, and Royal Authority in Colonial New England

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The Life of St Teresa of Avila by Herself

By: Teresa of Avila

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The Life of St Teresa of Avila by Herself

By: Teresa of Avila

Born in the Castilian town of Ávila in 1515, Teresa entered the Carmelite convent of the Incarnation when she was twenty-one. Tormented by illness, doubts and self-recrimination, she gradually came to recognize the power of prayer and contemplation - her spiritual enlightenment was intensified by many visions and mystical experiences, including the piercing of her heart by a spear of divine love. She went on to found seventeen Carmelite monasteries throughout Spain. Teresa always denied her own saintliness, however, saying in a letter: 'There is no suggestion of that nonsense about my supposed sanctity.' This frank account is one of the great stories of a religious life and a literary masterpiece - after Don Quixote, it is Spain's most widely read prose classic.

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Penguin UK

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0141916540

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The Book of Her Life

By: Teresa of Avila,Kieran Kavanaugh,Otilio Rodriguez

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The Book of Her Life

By: Teresa of Avila,Kieran Kavanaugh,Otilio Rodriguez

The Book of Her Life" is the spiritual autobiography of a Counter Reformation mystic and monastic reformer of sixteenth century Spain. Introduction by Jodi Bilinkoff.

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Hackett Publishing

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0872209075

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The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila Vol 2

By: Saint Teresa (of Avila),Kieran Kavanaugh,Otilio Rodriguez

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The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila Vol 2

By: Saint Teresa (of Avila),Kieran Kavanaugh,Otilio Rodriguez

This volume contains two of Teresa's most popular works: The Way of Perfection and The Interior Castle. Shortly after writing The Book of Her Life for her confessor, St. Teresa wrote The Way of Perfection at the request of her nuns who were eager to learn about prayer and contemplation. Throughout this work she teaches her nuns about prayer and also teaches us. Toward the end of her life, after she had experienced both the spiritual betrothal and spiritual marriage, Teresa wrote The Interior Castle, her own panoramic view of her relationship with God, from the lowest stages to the highest. Teresa here demonstrates her great gift for writing about that relationship and attracting us to explore the possibility of pursuing it. Along with these two classics, Volume Two also includes one of Teresa's minor works, her Meditations on the Song of Songs.

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ICS Publications

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0960087664

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Where There Is Love, There Is God

Her Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others

By: Mother Teresa

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Where There Is Love, There Is God

Her Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others

By: Mother Teresa

What you are doing I cannot do, what I’m doing you cannot do, but together we are doing something beautiful for God, and this is the greatness of God’s love for us.” —Mother Teresa, from Where There Is Love, There Is God In this book, Mother Teresa’s relationship with God and her commitment to those she served—the poorest of the poor—is powerfully explored in her own words. Taken largely from her private lessons to her sisters, published here for the first time, Where There Is Love, There Is God unveils her extraordinary faith in, and surrender to, God’s will. Love is perhaps the word that best summarizes Mother Teresa’s life and message. She sought to be an extension of God’s heart and hands in today’s world. She was called to be a missionary of charity, a carrier of God’s love to each person she met, especially those most in need. Yet she did not think that this was a vocation uniquely hers; she believed each person is in some way called to be a carrier of God’s love. Through the practical and timely advice she offers, Mother Teresa sets us on the path to closer union with God and greater love for our brothers and sisters.

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038553180X

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Mother Teresa

In My Own Words

By: Mother Teresa (Saint),José Luis González-Balado

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In My Own Words

By: Mother Teresa (Saint),José Luis González-Balado

Collection of quotations, stories, and prayers by Mother Teresa on the poor, the dying, the suffering, and the doubting; and offers hope and guidance in sharing God's love.

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Gramercy

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0517201690

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St. Teresa of Avila Three Book Treasury - Interior Castle, The Way of Perfection, and The Book of Her Life (Autobiography)

By: St Teresa Of Avila

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St. Teresa of Avila Three Book Treasury - Interior Castle, The Way of Perfection, and The Book of Her Life (Autobiography)

By: St Teresa Of Avila

Complete unabridged edition of The Way of Perfection, Interior Castle, and The Book of Her Life (her Autobiography) by Saint Teresa of Avila. This treasury, with over 1,000 footnotes cross referencing all three, will give the reader a unified study of Avila's spiritual path to God's glorious peace. It is accessible advice, written to friends, about practicing a spiritual life. For many, Avila's body of work is soul piercing and inspiring. "Blessed and praised be the Lord, from Whom comes all the good that we speak and think and do." The Way of Perfection was translated by E. Allison Peers, and includes over 100 footnotes. Interior Castle was translated by the Benedictines of Stanbrook, and includes over 400 footnotes. The Book of Her Life (her Autobiography) was translated by David Lewis, and includes over 500 footnotes. No student of thought should be without these historic books. This compilation edition is provided in a slim volume with full text at an affordable price.

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1640322116

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Little Book of Teresa of Avila

By: Don Mullan

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Little Book of Teresa of Avila

By: Don Mullan

Spanish Carmelite nun, Doctor of the Church, and a leading figure in the Counter Reformation, Teresa of Avila is widely revered as one of the greta mystical saints. Her book The Interior Castle is considered a spiritual masterpiece. A Little Book of Teresa of Avila captures in simple format the very essence of the the saint. The quotations gathered here provide a profound insight into his thinking, thus offering the reader food for thought and substance for prayerful reflection.

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1856074250

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The Captive's Position

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The Life of St Teresa of Avila by Herself

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The Book of Her Life

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The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila Vol 2

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Where There Is Love, There Is God

Where There Is Love, There Is God

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St. Teresa of Avila Three Book Treasury - Interior Castle, The Way of Perfection, and The Book of Her Life (Autobiography)

St. Teresa of Avila Three Book Treasury - Interior Castle, The Way of Perfection, and The Book of Her Life (Autobiography)

Little Book of Teresa of Avila

Little Book of Teresa of Avila

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