Colonial saints : discovering the holy in the Americas, 1500-1800 /

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"From the cult of Saint Anne to the devotees of the Virgin of Guadalupe, from Saint Anthony who competed with Christ for popularity in Brazil, to Jesuits who mixed freely with shamans that talked with the gods, this exciting new anthology examines the conversion of the colonized. The essays exa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Greer, Allan (Editor ), Bilinkoff, Jodi, 1955- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Routledge, 2003.
Temas:
Christian saints > Cult > America > History.
Christian hagiography.
Saints chrétiens > Culte > Amérique > Histoire.
Hagiographie chrétienne.
RELIGION > Christian Theology > Angelology & Demonology.
Christian hagiography
Christian saints > Cult
America > Church history.
Amérique > Histoire religieuse.
America
Electronic books.
Church history
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface / Allan Greer
  • Introduction / Jodi Bilinkoff
  • PART 1. CULTURAL MIXING
  • St. Anne imagery and maternal archetypes in Spain and Mexico / Charlene Villaseñor Black
  • Querying the spirit: the rules of the Haitian Lwa / Joan Dayan
  • Diego de Ocaña's hagiography of new and renewed devotion in colonial Peru / Kenneth Mills
  • Old bones and beautiful words: the spiritual contestation between Shaman and Jesuit in the Guaraní missions / Dot Tuer
  • St. Anthony in Portuguese America: saint of the restoration / Ronaldo Vainfas
  • PART 2. HOLY WOMEN, HOLY MEN
  • Francisco Losa and Gregorio López: spiritual friendship and identity formation on the New Spain frontier / Jodi Bilinkoff
  • In the shadow of the cloister: representations of female holiness in New France / Dominique Deslandres
  • Isaac Jogues: from martyrdom to sainthood / Paul Perron
  • Martyred by the saints: Quaker executions in seventeenth-century Massachusetts / Carla Gardina Pestana
  • St. Palafox: metaphorical images of disputed sainthood / Antonio Rubial García
  • PART 3. THE USES OF THE SACRED
  • Writing a relic: the uses of hagiography in New France / Julia Boss
  • Iroquois virgin: the story of Catherine Tekakwitha in New France and New Spain / Allan Greer
  • "Redeemer of America": Rosa de Lima (1586-1617), the dynamics of identity, and canonization / Kathleen Ann Myers
  • Mexico's virgin of Guadalupe in the seventeenth century: hagiography and beyond / William B. Taylor.

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