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Book SynopsisThis innovative collection brings together essays on women's religious experiences in both Europe and the Americas during the colonial era.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Spain and the New World Redefining Expectations: Women and the Church in Early Modern Spain Allyson M Poska and Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt Nuns, Kurakas, and Credit: The Spiritual Economy of Seventeenth Century Cuzco Kathryn Burns France and the New World Spheres of Female Religious Expression in Early Modern France Susan E. Dinan Women at the Centres, Mean at the Margins: The Wilderness Mission of the Secular Sisters of Early Montreal Reconsidered William Henry Foster III The Netherlands and the New World Marybeth Carlson recovering the Religious History of Dutch Reformed Women in Colonial New York Joyce D. Goodfriend England and the New World Anglicans, Catholics and Nonconformists after the Restoration, 1660-1720 Patricia Crawford The Eloquence of the Word and the Spirit: The Place of Women's Writing in Old and New England Sylvia Brown Gender andReligion in England's Catholic Provinces Debra Meyers Contributors Index
