Sarah Rivett-Stephanie Kirk

Religious Transformations In The Early Modern Americas Sarah Rivett-Stephanie Kirk

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Biographical Note: Stephanie Kirk is Associate Professor of Spanish at Washington University in St. Louis and author of Convent Life in Colonial Mexico: A Tale of Two Communities. Sarah Rivett teaches English at Princeton University and is author of The Science of the Soul in Colonial New England. Table of Contents: Introduction--Stephanie Kirk and Sarah RivettPART I. COMPARISONSChapter 1. Religions on the Move--J. H. ElliottChapter 2. Baroque New Worlds: Ethnography and Demonology in the Reformation and Counter-Reformation--Ralph BauerChapter 3. Martin de Murua, Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, and the Contested Uses of Saintly Models in Writing Colonial American History--David A. BoruchoffPART II. CROSSINGSChapter 4. Transatlantic Passages: The Reformed Tradition and the Politics of Writing--David D. HallChapter 5. Dying for Christ: Martyrdom in New Spain--Asuncion LavrinPART III. MISSIONSChapter 6. Believing in Piety: Spiritual Transformation Across Cultures in Early New England--Matt CohenChapter 7. Return as a Religious Mission: The Voyage to Dahomey Made by the Brazilian Mulatto Catholic Priests Cipriano Pires Sardinha and Vicente Ferreira Pires (1796-98)--Junia Ferreira FurtadoChapter 8. Jesuit Missionary Work in the Imperial Frontier: Mapping the Amazon in Seventeenth-Century Quito--Carmen Fernandez-SalvadorPART IV. LEGACIESChapter 9. "Reader . . . Behold One Raised by God": Religious Transformations in Cotton Mather's "Pietas in Patriam: The Life of His Excellency Sir William Phips, Knt."--Teresa A. ToulouseChapter 10. Between Cicero and Augustine: Religion and Republicanism in the Americas and Beyond--Sandra M. GustafsonNotesList of ContributorsIndexAcknowledgmentsReview Quotes:"How was Christianity not only transformed in the New World, but transformed by it? This superb collection of essays shows that the answers to this question for Iberian Catholicism and English Protestantism are neither identical, nor as opposed as traditionally conceived. Stephanie Kirk and Sarah Rivett's "Religious Transformations in the Early Modern Americas" is particularly commendable for giving equal weight to both of these religious traditions, setting a new standard for edited collections that seek to represent the hemispheric Americas. As readers accompany an outstanding interdisciplinary group of scholars through the main sites of religious transformation in the American colonies--from demonology and martyrdom to piety and missionization--they will be challenged to think anew about North-South comparisons and the relationship between religion and modernity in the early Americas."--Lisa Voigt, Ohio State University"Review Quotes:"This nuanced and compelling volume charts religion's invention, reinvention, and interventions across the geographies of the Americas in early modernity. Editors Kirk and Rivett are to be highly commended for their clear voice, light touch, and firm hand in this perfect assembly of essays representing interdisciplinary expertise, spatial reach, and thoughtful, carefully moderated comparative analysis. A model set of important studies: fascinating, articulate, smart, and, I dare say, transformative of the ways we think about early modern American histories, religions, populations, and practices."---Sally M. Promey, Yale UniversityPublisher Marketing: Religious Transformations in the Early Modern Americas shows what happened to Christianity when Old World doctrine and belief crossed the Atlantic and collided with New World realities. Essays from across disciplines explore the impact of colonial contexts on the symbolic institutions of Protestantism and Catholicism.

Contributor Bio:  Kirk, Stephanie Stephanie Kirk is assistant professor of Romance languages and literature at Washington University in St. Louis. Contributor Bio:  Rivett, Sarah Sarah Rivett is assistant professor of English at Princeton University.