Jodi Bilinkoff / Allan Greer (eds.)

Colonial Saints

Discovering the Holy in the Americas, 1500-1800
Herausgeber: Bilinkoff, Jodi; Greer, Allan

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This bold collection clearly shows the interplay between slavery and spirituality, conversion and control, and the links between the sacred and the political.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 646g
• ISBN-13: 9780415934954
• ISBN-10: 0415934958
• Artikelnr.: 21927967

Autorenporträt

Allan Greer is Professor of History at the University of Toronto. His areas of expertise include Canadian social history, colonization of the Americas, and cultural encounters between Native Americans and Europeans. Jodi Bilinkoff is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. She was a Fellow at the National Humanities Center. She has published widely on the social history of women and religion.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Preface, Allan Greer Introduction, Jodi Bilinkoff
Part 1: Cultural Mixing 1. St. Anne Imagery and Maternal Archetypes in
Spain and Mexico. Charlene Villaseñor Black 2. Querying the Spirit: The
Rules of the Haitian 'Lwa'. Joan Dayan 3. Diego de Ocaña's Hagiography of
New and Renewed Devotion in Colonial Peru. Kenneth Mills 4. Old Bones and
Beautiful Words: The Spiritual Contestation between Shaman and Jesuit in
the Guaraní Missions. Dot Tuer 5. Saint Anthony in Portuguese America:
Saint of the Restoration. Ronaldo Vainfas Part 2: Holy Women, Holy Men 6.
Francisco Losa and Gregorio López: Spiritual Friendship and Identity
Formation on the New Spain Frontier. Jodi Bilinkoff 7. In the Shadow of the
Cloister: Representations of Female Holiness in New France. Dominique
Deslandres 8. Isaac Jogues: From Martyrdom to Sainthood. Paul Perron 9.
Martyred by the Saints: Quaker Executions in Seventeenth-Century
Massachusetts. Carla Gardina Pestana 10. Saint Palafox: Metaphorical Images
of Disputed Sainthood. Antonio Rubial García Part 3: The Uses of the Sacred
11. Writing a Relic: The Uses of Hagiography in New France. Julia Boss 12.
Iroquois Virgin: The Story of Catherine Tekakwitha in New France and New
Spain. Allan Greer 13. Redeemer of America: Rosa de Lima (1586-1617), the
Dynamics of Identity and Canonization. Kathleen Ann Myers 14. Mexico's
Virgin of Guadalupe in the Seventeenth Century: Hagiography and Beyond.
William B. Taylor Contributors Select Bibliography