ABSTRACT

This innovative collection brings together essays on women's religious experiences in both Europe and the Americas during the colonial era.

part |50 pages

Spain and the New World

chapter |22 pages

Redefining Expectations

Women and the Church in Early Modern Spain

chapter |26 pages

Nuns, Kurakas, and Credit

The Spiritual Economy of Seventeenth-Century Cuzco

part |43 pages

France and the New World

chapter |20 pages

Women at the Centers, Men at the Margins

The Wilderness Mission of the Secular Sisters of Early Montreal Reconsidered

part |75 pages

England and the New World