Misereres and Exsultates

by Celine Armenta

Overview

We don't know much of Mexican Catholic nuns. How many are there , what do they think, what are they in search of, what are their dreams or nightmares? We don't know how they survive in an ideologically hostile environment, how they preserve their medieval structures, how they support themselves, love and live power, sexuality, economy, solitude and death.
In this book the author writes about her ten year experience in the convent through essays and reflections about nun themes.
This book can cause unease, dislike and incomprehension since the author is an ex-nun that has become a lesbian activist and an atheist. For some, her writings may seem ridiculous instead of dramatic, boring instead of sublime, grotesque instead of intimate. Some readers might even see pornography, bluntness , or aggression where the intention was only to show how complex everyday life among women living together is.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940155871033
Publisher:	Demac A.C.
Publication date:	02/24/2016
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	301,440
File size:	282 KB

About the Author

English Bio Celine Armenta has more than 40 years of active involvement in education related activities. She has written and staged school plays,organised choruses, cleaned school desks, prepared chemistry practices, organised multiple field trips, given all sort of courses such as physics, special ed,cut and confection, etc.. She has reached students from kinder garten, elementary, middle school, high school, college and grad school students. She was a nun for 10 years and after leaving the convent she became a Biologist by the UNAM (Mexican National Autonomous University) and UDLA (Americas University in Puebla) and she also has a Special Education degree from Columbia University in New York. She describes herself as a lesbian activist, atheist, optimist with a strong "joie de vivre". Celine is an avid reader of all genres. Writing is her passion, her hobby and her identity. Bio en español Tras más cuarenta años de participar en muchísimas tareas relacionadas con educación- como escribir y montar obras de teatro escolares, organizar coros, lavar mesabancos, preparar prácticas de química, organizar excursiones, estar al frente de grupos de preescolar, secundaria, preparatoria y posgrado, dando clases de física, corte y confección, estadística, educación especial y otras materias- Celine Armenta afirma haberse ganado el título de educadora. Además, ahora vive de enseñar a futuros educadores y a maestros en servicio. Por otra, estudió biología- la profesión del asombro- en la UNAM, y luego, en la UDLA de Ciudad de México y en la Universidad Columbia en Nueva York, educación especial - la profesión de la esperanza. Se asume como activista lesbiana feminista, atea, evolucionista, optimista, entusiasta de vivir mientras la vida dure y lectora incansable de todos los géneros. Escribir siempre ha sido su pasión, su pasatiempo y hasta su identidad, aunque éste es su primer libro.