Colonial saints : discovering the holy in the Americas, 1500-1800 / edited by Allan Greer and Jodi Bilinkoff.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 5, 2016).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"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 examine how New World spirits transformed into Old World saints - for example, the spirit of love transfigured into the Virgin Mary - as well as the implications of the canonization of the first American saint. Colonial Saints illustrates the complex and intimate connections among confessional life writing, canonization, and the practices of the Inquisition. There was a dynamic exchange involving local agendas, the courts in Spain and France, and, of course, Rome. This bold collection clearly shows the interplay between slavery and spirituality, conversion and control, and the links between the sacred and the political"--Publisher description.

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