%0 Journal Article
%T Representations of the Devil: Social Fears Demonstrated in Three Conventual Writings from the New Kingdom of Granada Representaciones del Demonio: miedos sociales vislumbrados en tres escritos conventuales neogranadinos
%A Esther Cristina Cabrera Lema
%J Revista CS
%D 2012
%I Universidad Icesi
%X The colonial body was structured by the attitudes and behaviors modeled in stories of exemplary individuals promoted by the regimes of order of the Catholic Church. Furthermore, images of hell, punishment, and especially of the Devil allowed the Church to shape and project fears based on religious concepts into the social context. The indigenous, black slaves, and mestizos were demonized with the purpose of maintaining the social hierarchy by protecting and sheltering women of the elite class from unequal unions. The protection of these women was achieved by isolating them in convents, where women were allowed to write about their experiences. Through these texts it is possible to shed light on the role that the image of the devil played in the minds of the nuns and to analyze their appropriation, interpretation and re-presentation based on the social fears of their context. El proyecto ordenador de la Iglesia Cat車lica estructur車 el cuerpo social colonial a partir de los modelos de comportamiento ideales de sujetos ejemplares, adicionalmente se utilizaron discursos referentes al Demonio, lo que permiti車 trasladar los miedos basados en conceptos religiosos a miedos sociales del contexto neogranadino. El indio, el negro y el mestizo fueron demonizados con el fin de mantener el orden jer芍rquico evitando cualquier uni車n desigual con las mujeres de la elite. La protecci車n de estas mujeres se logr車 mediante su aislamiento f赤sico en espacios conventuales, en los cuales, algunas de ellas elaboraron escritos a partir de los cuales, es posible vislumbrar el rol que jug車 la imagen del Demonio, permitiendo analizar su apropiaci車n, interpretaci車n y re-presentaci車n basados en los miedos sociales de su contexto.
%K Demonio
%K Vida conventual
%K Control social
%K Representaci車n
%K Sectores sociales marginales
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