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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797972503321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2015

ISBN

1-136-70636-4

1-315-02358-X

1-136-70629-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (340 p.)

Classificazione

11.59

Altri autori (Persone)

BilinkoffJodi <1955->

GreerAllan

Disciplina

235.2097

Soggetti

Christian saints - Cult - America - History

Christian hagiography

America Church history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in Great Britain 2003 by Routledge.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Introduction; Part 1 CULTURAL MIXING; 1. St. Anne Imagery and Maternal Archetypes in Spain and Mexico; 2. Querying the Spirit: The Rules of the Haitian Lwa; 3. Diego de Ocaña's Hagiography of New and Renewed Devotion in Colonial Peru; 4. Old Bones and Beautiful Words: The Spiritual Contestation between Shaman and Jesuit in the Guaraní Missions; 5. St. Anthony in Portuguese America: Saint of the Restoration; Part 2 HOLY WOMEN, HOLY MEN

6. Francisco Losa and Gregorio López: Spiritual Friendship and Identity Formation on the New Spain Frontier7. In the Shadow of the Cloister: Representations of Female Holiness in New France; 8. Isaac Jogues: From Martyrdom to Sainthood; 9. Martyred by the Saints: Quaker Executions in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts; 10. St. Palafox: Metaphorical Images of Disputed Sainthood; Part 3 THE USES OF THE SACRED; 11. Writing a Relic: The Uses of Hagiography in New France; 12. Iroquois Virgin: The Story of Catherine Tekakwitha in New France and New Spain

13. ""Redeemer of America"": Rosa de Lima (1586-1617), the Dynamics



of Identity, and Canonization14. Mexico's Virgin of Guadalupe in the Seventeenth Century: Hagiography and Beyond; Select Bibliography; Contributors; Index