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Women and Religion in the Atlantic Age, 1550—1900

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Women and Religion in the Atlantic Age, 1550—1900 book

Edited ByEmily Clark, Mary Laven
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2013
eBook Published 22 February 2016
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315546865
Pages 232
eBook ISBN 9781315546865
Subjects Humanities
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Clark, E., & Laven, M. (Eds.). (2013). Women and Religion in the Atlantic Age, 1550—1900 (1st ed.). Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315546865

ABSTRACT

Bringing the study of early modern Christianity into dialogue with Atlantic history, this collection provides a longue durée investigation of women and religion within a transatlantic context. Taking as its starting point the work of Natalie Zemon Davis on the effects of confessional difference among women in the age of religious reformations, the volume expands the focus to broader temporal and geographic boundaries. The result is a series of essays examining the effects of religious reform and revival among women in the wider Atlantic world of Europe, the Americas, and West Africa from 1550 to 1850. Taken collectively, the essays in this volume chart the extended impact of confessional divergence on women over time and space, and uncover a web of transatlantic religious interaction that significantly enriches our understanding of the unfolding of the Atlantic World. Divided into three sections, the volume begins with an exploration of ’Old World Reforms’ looking afresh at the impact of confessional change in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries upon the lives of European women. Part two takes this forward, tracing the adaptation of European religious forms within Africa and the Americas. The third and final section explores the multifarious faces of the revival that inspired the nineteenth century missionary movement on both sides of the Atlantic. Collectively the essays underline the extent to which the development of the Atlantic World created a space within which an unprecedented series of juxtapositions, collisions, and collusions among religious traditions and practitioners took place. These demonstrate how the religious history of Europe, the Americas, and Africa became intertwined earlier and more deeply than much scholarship suggests, and highlight the dynamic nature of transatlantic cross-fertilization and influence.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |11 pages

Introduction

ByEmily Clark, Mary Laven

part I|36 pages

Old World Reforms

chapter 1|18 pages

What Are the Women Doing in Foxe's 'Book of Martyrs'?

ByPatrick Collinson

chapter 2|16 pages

From Devilry to Sainthood: Mère Jeanne des Anges and the Catholic Reform

ByRobin Briggs

part II|92 pages

European Encounters with Africa and the Americas

chapter 3|16 pages

Islands of Women in a Sea of Change: Havana's Female Religious Communities in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World 1

ByJohn J. Clune

chapter 4|21 pages

When Is a Cloister Not a Cloister? Comparing Women and Religion in the Colonies of France and Spain

ByEmily Clark

chapter 5|33 pages

Crossing Denominational Boundaries: Two Early American Women and Religion in the Atlantic World

ByAnnette Laing

chapter 6|18 pages

Njinga of Matamba and the Politics of Catholicism

ByCathy Skidmore-Hess

part III|72 pages

Reviva

chapter 7|22 pages

Religious Sisters and Revival in the English Catholic Church, 1840s–1880s

BySusan O’Brien

chapter 8|29 pages

Women and Religious Revival in Nineteenth-Century France: Jeanne-Antide Thouret and the Sisters of Charity of Besançon

ByHazel Mills

chapter 9|18 pages

Religion and the Rise and Fall of Female Benevolence in Antebellum Savannah, 1801–60

ByTimothy J. Lockley
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