Colonial saints: discovering the holy in the Americas, 1500-1800

Preface / Allan Greer

Introduction / Jodi Bilinkoff

PART 1. CULTURAL MIXING

St. Anne imagery and maternal archetypes in Spain and Mexico / Charlene Villaseñor Black

Querying the spirit: the rules of the Haitian Lwa / Joan Dayan

Diego de Ocaña's hagiography of new and renewed devotion in colonial Peru / Kenneth Mills

Old bones and beautiful words: the spiritual contestation between Shaman and Jesuit in the Guaraní missions / Dot Tuer

St. Anthony in Portuguese America: saint of the restoration / Ronaldo Vainfas

PART 2. HOLY WOMEN, HOLY MEN

Francisco Losa and Gregorio López: spiritual friendship and identity formation on the New Spain frontier / Jodi Bilinkoff

In the shadow of the cloister: representations of female holiness in New France / Dominique Deslandres

Isaac Jogues: from martyrdom to sainthood / Paul Perron

Martyred by the saints: Quaker executions in seventeenth-century Massachusetts / Carla Gardina Pestana

St. Palafox: metaphorical images of disputed sainthood / Antonio Rubial García

PART 3. THE USES OF THE SACRED

Writing a relic: the uses of hagiography in New France / Julia Boss

Iroquois virgin: the story of Catherine Tekakwitha in New France and New Spain / Allan Greer

"Redeemer of America": Rosa de Lima (1586-1617), the dynamics of identity, and canonization / Kathleen Ann Myers

Mexico's virgin of Guadalupe in the seventeenth century: hagiography and beyond / William B. Taylor