Colonial Saints : Discovering the Holy in the Americas, 1500–1800 (Paperback)

List of Illustrations, Preface, Allan Greer, Introduction, Jodi Bilinkoff Part 1: Cultural Mixing, 1. St. Anne Imagery and Maternal Archetypes in Spain and Mexico. Charlene Villase; or Black 2. Querying the Spirit: The Rules of the Haitian 'Lwa'. Joan Dayan 3. Diego de Ocaoa's Hagiography of New and Renewed Devotion in Colonial Peru. Kenneth Mills, 4. Old Bones and Beautiful Words: The Spiritual Contestation between Shaman and Jesuit in the Guaran; Missions. Dot Tuer 5. Saint Anthony in Portuguese America: Saint of the Restoration. Ronaldo Vainfas, Part 2: Holy Women, Holy Men 6. Francisco Losa and Gregorio Lopez: Spiritual Friendship and Identity Formation on the New Spain Frontier., Jodi Bilinkoff 7. In the Shadow of the Cloister: Representations of Female Holiness in New France. Dominique Deslandres,8. Isaac Jogues: From Martyrdom to Sainthood. Paul Perron,9. Martyred by the Saints: Quaker Executions in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts. Carla Gardina Pestana,10. Saint Palafox: Metaphorical Images of Disputed Sainthood. Antonio Rubial Garcia Part 3: The Uses of the Sacred 11. Writing a Relic: The Uses of Hagiography in New France. Julia Boss,12. Iroquois Virgin: The Story of Catherine Tekakwitha in New France and New Spain. Allan Greer 13. Redeemer of America: Rosa de Lima (1586-1617), the Dynamics of Identity and Canonization. Kathleen Ann Myers 14. Mexico's Virgin of Guadalupe in the Seventeenth Century: Hagiography and Beyond. William B. Taylor, Contributors, Select Bibliography