Phantomatic Presences and Bioreligiosity
On the Legionaries of Christ and the Jesuit Order
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/post.v5i3.293Keywords:
Legionaries of Christ, Jesuits, bioreligiosity, eroticism, Roman Catholic ChurchAbstract
This article explores the mimetic analogies between the twentieth-century Mexican order of the Legionaries of Christ and the Jesuits in their historic and current Atlantic reproduction. It argues for a line of study of the translocality of the Roman Catholic Church that pays attention to phantomatic presences, changing bioreligiosity and affective histories. Moreover it shows as a close focus on the “psychic glue” between different religious orders can shed light on the affective power of eroticism and mysticism within the Roman Catholic Church after the Second Vatican Council.
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Guillermoprieto, Alma. 2010. “The Mission of the Father Maciel.” New York Review of Books, June 24.
González, Fernando. M. 2001. Matar y Morir por Cristo Rey: Aspectos de la cristiada. México, D.F., Plaza y Valdés: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales.
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González Ruiz, Edgar. 2004. Los Otros Cristeros y su Presencia en Puebla. Puebla: BUAP.
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Orozco, Domingo, S.J. 1963. Letter to the General of the Jesuit Ioannis B. Ianssens. January 13. Mexico Province, Epistolae 1962–1965. Rome: ARSI, Archivium Romanum Societatis Jesu.
Ortiz, Fernando. 1995. Cuban Counterpoint: Tobacco and Sugar. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Rahner, Karl. S.J. 1967 (1981). “‘Behold this Heart!’: Preliminaries to a Theology of Devotion to the Sacred Heart.” In Theological Investigation 3: 321–352. Crossroad: New York.
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Reff, Daniel T. 2005. Plagues, Priests, and Demons: Sacred Narratives and the Rise of Christianity in the Old World and the New. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Rose, Jacqueline. 2003. On Not Being Able to Sleep. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
———. 2011. The Jacqueline Rose Reader. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Torres, Alfonso. 2001. La Prodigiosa Aventura de los Legionarios de Cristo. Madrid: Akal Ediciones.
Van Kessel, Elisja Schulte. 1995. “Virgins and Mothers between Heaven and Earth.” In Renaissance and Enlightenment Paradoxes, edited by Natalie Zemon Davis and Arlette Farge, 132–166. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
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Napolitano, V. (2011). Phantomatic Presences and Bioreligiosity: On the Legionaries of Christ and the Jesuit Order. Postscripts: The Journal of Sacred Texts, Cultural Histories, and Contemporary Contexts, 5(3), 293-316. https://doi.org/10.1558/post.v5i3.293
