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Religious Transformations in the Early Modern Americas shows what happened to Christianity when Old World doctrine and belief crossed the Atlantic and collided with New World realities. Essays from across disciplines explore the impact of colonial contexts on the symbolic institutions of Protestantism and Catholicism.
List of contents
Introduction
—Stephanie Kirk and Sarah Rivett
PART I. COMPARISONS
Chapter 1. Religions on the Move
—J. H. Elliott
Chapter 2. Baroque New Worlds: Ethnography and Demonology in the Reformation and Counter-Reformation
—Ralph Bauer
Chapter 3. Martín de Murúa, Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, and the Contested Uses of Saintly Models in Writing Colonial American History
—David A. Boruchoff
PART II. CROSSINGS
Chapter 4. Transatlantic Passages: The Reformed Tradition and the Politics of Writing
—David D. Hall
Chapter 5. Dying for Christ: Martyrdom in New Spain
—Asunción Lavrin
PART III. MISSIONS
Chapter 6. Believing in Piety: Spiritual Transformation Across Cultures in Early New England
—Matt Cohen
Chapter 7. Return as a Religious Mission: The Voyage to Dahomey Made by the Brazilian Mulatto Catholic Priests Cipriano Pires Sardinha and Vicente Ferreira Pires (1796-98)
—Júnia Ferreira Furtado
Chapter 8. Jesuit Missionary Work in the Imperial Frontier: Mapping the Amazon in Seventeenth-Century Quito
—Carmen Fernández-Salvador
PART IV. LEGACIES
Chapter 9. "Reader . . . Behold One Raised by God": Religious Transformations in Cotton Mather's
Pietas in Patriam: The Life of His Excellency Sir William Phips, Knt.—Teresa A. Toulouse
Chapter 10. Between Cicero and Augustine: Religion and Republicanism in the Americas and Beyond
—Sandra M. Gustafson
Notes
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
About the author
Stephanie Kirk is Associate Professor of Spanish at Washington University in St. Louis and author of Convent Life in Colonial Mexico: A Tale of Two Communities. Sarah Rivett is Associate Professor of English at Princeton University and is author of The Science of the Soul in Colonial New England.
Summary
Religious Transformations in the Early Modern Americas shows what happened to Christianity when Old World doctrine and belief crossed the Atlantic and collided with New World realities. Essays from across disciplines explore the impact of colonial contexts on the symbolic institutions of Protestantism and Catholicism.
