Women, religion, and the Atlantic world (1600-1800)edited by Daniella Kostroun and Lisa Vollendorf. - Toronto [Ont. : Published by the University of Toronto Press in association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, (c)2009. (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, (c)2010). - 1 online resource (xii, 354 pages) - UCLA Center/Clark series .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Rethinking the Catholic Reformation : the role of women / The religious lives of singlewomen in the Anglo-Atlantic world : Quaker missionaries, Protestant nuns, and covert Catholics / Transatlantic ties : women's writings in Iberia and the Americas / Prophets and helpers : African American women and the rise of black Christianity in the age of the slave trade / 'The most resplendent flower of the Indies' : making saints and constructing whiteness in colonial Peru / Missionary men and the global currency of female sanctity / Patriarchs, petitions, and prayers : intersections of gender and Calidad in colonial Mexico / Atlantic world monsters : monstrous births and the politics of pregnancy in colonial Guatemala / A Judaizing 'old Christian' woman and the Mexican inquisition : the 'unusual' case of María de Zárate / A world of women and a world of men? : Pueblo witchcraft in eighteenth-century New Mexico / The maidens, the monks, and their mothers : patriarchal authority and holy vows in colonial Lima, 1650-1715 / Barbara B. Diefendorf -- Amy M. Froide -- Lisa Vollendorf -- Jon Sensbach -- Rachel Sarah O'Toole -- J. Michelle Molina and Ulrike Strasser -- Joan Cameron Bristol -- Martha Few -- Stacey Schlau -- Tracy Brown -- Bianca Premo.



9781442697638




Women and religion--History--Atlantic Ocean Region--18th century.
Women--Religious life--History--Atlantic Ocean Region--18th century.


Electronic Books.

BL458 / .W664 2009