Women, Religion & the Atlantic World, 1600-1800

✍ Scribed by Daniella Kostroun; Lisa Vollendorf

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 366
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Through a thoughtful consideration of the complexity of the religious landscape of the Atlantic basin, the collection provides an enriching portrayal of the intriguing interplay between religion, gender, ethnicity, and authority in the early modern Atlantic world.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Introduction
PART I. Theoretical Reflections on Women and Religion from an Atlantic Perspective
1. Rethinking the Catholic Reformation: The Role of Women
2. The Religious Lives of Singlewomen in the Anglo-Atlantic World: Quaker Missionaries, Protestant Nuns, and Covert Catholics
3. Transatlantic Ties: Women’s Writing in Iberia and the Americas
PART II. Negotiating Belief and Ethnicity in the Atlantic Basin
4. Prophets and Helpers: African American Women and the Rise of Black Christianity in the Age of the Slave Trade
5. ‘The Most Resplendent Flower of the Indies’: Making Saints and Constructing Whiteness in Colonial Peru
6. Missionary Men and the Global Currency of Female Sanctity
7. Patriarchs, Petitions, and Prayers: Intersections of Gender and Calidad in Colonial Mexico
PART III. Authority and Identity in the Catholic Atlantic
8. Atlantic World Monsters: Monstrous Births and the Politics of Pregnancy in Colonial Guatemala
9. A Judaizing ‘Old Christian’ Woman and the Mexican Inquisition: The ‘Unusual’ Case of María de Zárate
10. A World of Women and a World of Men? Pueblo Witchcraft in Eighteenth-Century New Mexico
11. The Maidens, the Monks, and Their Mothers: Patriarchal Authority and Holy Vows in Colonial Lima, 1650–1715
Works Cited
Index