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Magnus Lundberg

Magnus Lundberg is professor of church and mission studies at the Department of Theology, Uppsala university, Sweden. His research is focused on the history of the Catholic Church in colonial Spanish America. He has published works on Alonso de Montúfar, archbishop of Mexico, 1554-1572 and on relations between parish priests and indigenous parishioners in the dioceses of Mexico and Puebla in the seventeenth century. Currently he is working on a project about the missionary roles of contemplative women in colonial Spanish America and the Philippines. He has published articles on the ordination of indigenous priests, provincial councils, ecclesiastical law, pastoral visitations, ecclestical archives, new religious movements with roots in the Catholic dissenter groups, and the history of mission studies. For more info and downloadble texts, see www.magnuslundberg.net
Address: Department of Theology
P.O. Box 511
SE-751 20 Uppsala
Sweden

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In 2018, fifty years will have passed since the first reports of Marian apparitions in El Palmar ... more In 2018, fifty years will have passed since the first reports of Marian apparitions in El Palmar de Troya in Spanish Andalusia. It will also be the fortieth anniversary of the coronation of the seer Clemente Domínguez Gómez as Pope Gregory XVII, and the consequent foundation of the Palmarian Catholic Church. Still, placing the papal tiara on his head was only seen as a human act of confirmation. He asserted that Christ himself had crowned him just after the death of Pope Paul VI.

This book provides a broad overview of the history of the apparitions at El Palmar de Troya and the church that became its main result. It also includes a more systematic analysis of the church’s increasingly unusual doctrines and rituals. Through the study, I try to answer two underlying questions: First, which factors contributed to the foundation of the Palmarian Church? Second, how has the church survived and developed through its four decades of existence?

Reflexión sobre la muy estrecha relación que se dio entre los indios, el derecho canónico y los d... more Reflexión sobre la muy estrecha relación que se dio entre los indios, el derecho canónico y los diversos foros en materia de justicia religiosa de la América virreinal, pilares de la Monarquía hispana, según los autores.

This book is about religious women’s contributions to others’ salvation in seventeenth and eighte... more This book is about religious women’s contributions to others’ salvation in seventeenth and eighteenth century Spanish America and the Philippines, a subject that has been little studied in previous research. In this investigation, special emphasis is put on aspects of the colonial gender
relations that have bearing on the intricate relationships between the apostolic and contemplative forms of religious life as presented in colonial texts by and about these women. The majority of them were nuns, who lived a life in enclosure, a fact that in a most concrete way constrained the physical mobility normally seen as a presupposition for apostolic endeavours.

Despite the constrictions of space and agency that were related to their female gender, many women in the Spanish colonial empire, whether nuns or other contemplatives, were said to have functions in the missionary enterprise. As a consequence of their love of God and neighbour, they felt a vocation for missionary work, they prayed and suffered for the salvation of others, they taught and counselled people who came to them with their religious and moral queries, and some claimed that they were transported in spirit to the mission frontiers where they carried out similar work as the male missionaries, albeit in
a supernatural way.

This book is about religious women' s contributions to others' salvation in seventeenth and eight... more This book is about religious women' s contributions to others' salvation in seventeenth and eighteenth century Spanish America and the Philippines, a subject that has been little studied in previous research. In this investigation, special emphasis is put on aspects of the colonial gender relations that have bearing on the intricate relationships between the apostolic and contemplative forms of religious life as presented in colonial texts by and about these women. The majority of them were nuns, who lived a life in enclosure, a fact that in a most concrete way constrained the physical mobility normally seen as a presupposition for apostolic endeavours.

Articles/Reports by Magnus Lundberg

Published in: Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions, 17.2 (2013): 40-60

Lillian von der Walde & Mariel Reinoso (eds.), Virreinatos II, Mexico City: Editorial Grupo Destiempos, 2013, p. 78-90.

Overview of alternative popes (antipopes) from the 1950s onwards.

Published in: Anuario de Historia de la Iglesia 15 (2006), p. 259-268

Published in: Estudios de Historia Novohispana 38 (2008), p. 39-62.

Published in: Historia Mexicana 230 (2008), p. 861-890

Published in: Carine Dujardin & Claude Prudhomme (eds.), Mission & Science: Missiology Revisited/... more Published in: Carine Dujardin & Claude Prudhomme (eds.), Mission & Science: Missiology Revisited/Missiologie revisitée, 1850-1940, Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2015.