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Women, religion, and the Atlantic world (1600-1800) / edited by Daniella Kostroun and Lisa Vollendorf.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: UCLA Clark Memorial Library seriesPublisher: Toronto [Ont.] : Published by the University of Toronto Press in association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (xii, 354 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781442697638
  • 1442697636
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Women, religion, and the Atlantic world (1600-1800).DDC classification:
  • 200.82/09182109032
LOC classification:
  • BL458 .W652 2009eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Rethinking the Catholic Reformation : the role of women / Barbara B. Diefendorf -- The religious lives of singlewomen in the Anglo-Atlantic world : Quaker missionaries, Protestant nuns, and covert Catholics / Amy M. Froide -- Transatlantic ties : women's writings in Iberia and the Americas / Lisa Vollendorf -- Prophets and helpers : African American women and the rise of black Christianity in the age of the slave trade / Jon Sensbach -- 'The most resplendent flower of the Indies' : making saints and constructing whiteness in colonial Peru / Rachel Sarah O'Toole -- Missionary men and the global currency of female sanctity / J. Michelle Molina and Ulrike Strasser -- Patriarchs, petitions, and prayers : intersections of gender and Calidad in colonial Mexico / Joan Cameron Bristol -- Atlantic world monsters : monstrous births and the politics of pregnancy in colonial Guatemala / Martha Few -- A Judaizing 'old Christian' woman and the Mexican inquisition : the 'unusual' case of María de Zárate / Stacey Schlau -- A world of women and a world of men? : Pueblo witchcraft in eighteenth-century New Mexico / Tracy Brown -- The maidens, the monks, and their mothers : patriarchal authority and holy vows in colonial Lima, 1650-1715 / Bianca Premo.
Review: "This innovative collection of essays looks at the complex interplay between religion, gender, and authority in the early modern Atlantic world. Drawing on historical, literary, and anthropological methodologies, the essays explore the significance of the 'Atlantic community' and challenge the conventional divisions of nation-bound inquiry in the humanities. The contributors focus on European, Indigenous, Creole, African, and mestiza women's interactions with shifting paradigms of Protestantism, Catholicism, Judaism, and syncretic beliefs to highlight the unique cultural dynamics of the Atlantic. The volume considers these themes within the context of a wide range of individual, imperial, and institutional cases, involving such diverse figures as an African slave, a Peruvian nun, and Native American healers, who in various ways challenged and exposed the hypocrisy of patriarchal religious and political institutions. Together the contributors investigate and bring to life the early modern Atlantic world's changing cultural landscape and its impact on slaves and free people, migrants and natives, nuns, wives, widows, mothers, and singlewomen. In casting the project within the Atlantic framework, the essays seek to transcend the limitations of binaries of Old versus New World. Catholic versus Protestant, Indigenous versus European. Instead the volume aims to examine the changes created by the movement of people, ideas. objects, and beliefs in the shared spaces of the Atlantic, a community connected by economic, political. and cultural ties.
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"This innovative collection of essays looks at the complex interplay between religion, gender, and authority in the early modern Atlantic world. Drawing on historical, literary, and anthropological methodologies, the essays explore the significance of the 'Atlantic community' and challenge the conventional divisions of nation-bound inquiry in the humanities. The contributors focus on European, Indigenous, Creole, African, and mestiza women's interactions with shifting paradigms of Protestantism, Catholicism, Judaism, and syncretic beliefs to highlight the unique cultural dynamics of the Atlantic. The volume considers these themes within the context of a wide range of individual, imperial, and institutional cases, involving such diverse figures as an African slave, a Peruvian nun, and Native American healers, who in various ways challenged and exposed the hypocrisy of patriarchal religious and political institutions. Together the contributors investigate and bring to life the early modern Atlantic world's changing cultural landscape and its impact on slaves and free people, migrants and natives, nuns, wives, widows, mothers, and singlewomen. In casting the project within the Atlantic framework, the essays seek to transcend the limitations of binaries of Old versus New World. Catholic versus Protestant, Indigenous versus European. Instead the volume aims to examine the changes created by the movement of people, ideas. objects, and beliefs in the shared spaces of the Atlantic, a community connected by economic, political. and cultural ties.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-333) and index.

Rethinking the Catholic Reformation : the role of women / Barbara B. Diefendorf -- The religious lives of singlewomen in the Anglo-Atlantic world : Quaker missionaries, Protestant nuns, and covert Catholics / Amy M. Froide -- Transatlantic ties : women's writings in Iberia and the Americas / Lisa Vollendorf -- Prophets and helpers : African American women and the rise of black Christianity in the age of the slave trade / Jon Sensbach -- 'The most resplendent flower of the Indies' : making saints and constructing whiteness in colonial Peru / Rachel Sarah O'Toole -- Missionary men and the global currency of female sanctity / J. Michelle Molina and Ulrike Strasser -- Patriarchs, petitions, and prayers : intersections of gender and Calidad in colonial Mexico / Joan Cameron Bristol -- Atlantic world monsters : monstrous births and the politics of pregnancy in colonial Guatemala / Martha Few -- A Judaizing 'old Christian' woman and the Mexican inquisition : the 'unusual' case of María de Zárate / Stacey Schlau -- A world of women and a world of men? : Pueblo witchcraft in eighteenth-century New Mexico / Tracy Brown -- The maidens, the monks, and their mothers : patriarchal authority and holy vows in colonial Lima, 1650-1715 / Bianca Premo.

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