Women, Religion & the Atlantic World, 1600-1800 / / Daniella Kostroun, Lisa Vollendorf.

• VerfasserIn: Kostroun, Daniella,; Vollendorf, Lisa,
• MitwirkendeR: Bristol, Joan Cameron,; Brown, Tracy,; Diefendorf, Barbara B.,; Few, Martha,; Froide, Amy M.,; Kostroun, Daniella,; Molina, J. Michelle,; O'Toole, Rachel Sarah,; Premo, Bianca,; Schlau, Stacey,; Sensbach, Jon,; Strasser, Ulrike,; Vollendorf, Lisa,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781442697638
• DOI: 10.3138/9781442697638
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Daniella Kostroun, Lisa Vollendorf.

Drawing on historical, literary, and anthropological methodologies, Women, Religion, and the Atlantic World explores the meaning of an 'Atlantic community' and challenges the conventional boundaries of nation-bound inquiry in the humanities. The volume's contributors focus on European, indigenous, Creole, African, and mestiza women's interactions with shifting paradigms of Protestantism, Catholicism, Judaism, and syncretic beliefs throughout the Atlantic basin to highlight the unique cultural dynamics of the Atlantic. Mapping these themes with a diverse range of individual, imperial, and institutional cases, the essays include studies of a Peruvian nun's battle against a black demon, an African slave whose knowledge of the Bible stunned white men, and native American healers accused of witchcraft. 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.