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
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Colonial saints
• ISBN: 1-315-02358-X; 1-136-70629-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910460854003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II