Colonial Saints

"This important and fascinating collection ranges from New France through Massachusetts, Mexico, the Caribbean into Peru and beyond. The methodological and topical ranges--voodou, child-bearing, race, art, devotion, to name a few--are truly impressive. The book fulfills its promise of transporting the reader beyond the saints into "the mysteries of colonial culture." -- John W. O'Malley, Professor of Church History, Weston Jesuit School of Theology
"These pathbreaking essays move us beyond the metaphor of "spiritual conquest" to a more complex understanding of colonial American religious cultures in the making. Colonial Saints gives close, convincing readings of its agents, gender politics, visual economies, and much more." -- Kathryn Burns, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Greer and Bilinkoff have organized a project both novel in its goal and ambitious in its scope, providing a tantalizing and kaleidoscopic picture of sanctity and its cult in the colonial Americas. Colonial Saints marks the first steps in what will clearly be a long and important new scholarly journey." -- Thomas Head, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, The City University of New York
"This important collection of essays provides a superb account of the emergence of distinctive new forms of hagiography in the Americas... [and] provides an invaluable demonstration of the importance of a comparative approach to the religious history of the Americas.
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"It is usefull and informative for any type of researcher." -- Alejandra Rengifo, Central Michigan University,Sixteenth Century Journal