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

• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (340 p.)
• Disciplina: 235.2097
• Soggetto topico: Christian saints - Cult - America - History; Christian hagiography
• Soggetto geografico: America Church history
• Classificazione: 11.59
• Altri autori: BilinkoffJodi <1955-> GreerAllan
• 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Colonial saints
• ISBN: 1-136-70636-4; 1-315-02358-X; 1-136-70629-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910956468903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II