Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Contributors ix
5. Introduction 1
6. PART I. Theoretical Reflections on Women and Religion from an Atlantic Perspective
7. 1. Rethinking the Catholic Reformation: The Role of Women 31
8. 2. The Religious Lives of Singlewomen in the Anglo-Atlantic World: Quaker Missionaries, Protestant Nuns, and Covert Catholics 60
9. 3. Transatlantic Ties: Women’s Writing in Iberia and the Americas 79
10. PART II. Negotiating Belief and Ethnicity in the Atlantic Basin
11. 4. Prophets and Helpers: African American Women and the Rise of Black Christianity in the Age of the Slave Trade 115
12. 5. ‘The Most Resplendent Flower of the Indies’: Making Saints and Constructing Whiteness in Colonial Peru 136
13. 6. Missionary Men and the Global Currency of Female Sanctity 156
14. 7. Patriarchs, Petitions, and Prayers: Intersections of Gender and Calidad in Colonial Mexico 180
15. PART III. Authority and Identity in the Catholic Atlantic
16. 8. Atlantic World Monsters: Monstrous Births and the Politics of Pregnancy in Colonial Guatemala 205
17. 9. A Judaizing ‘Old Christian’ Woman and the Mexican Inquisition: The ‘Unusual’ Case of María de Zárate 223
18. 10. A World of Women and a World of Men? Pueblo Witchcraft in Eighteenth-Century New Mexico 252
19. 11. The Maidens, the Monks, and Their Mothers: Patriarchal Authority and Holy Vows in Colonial Lima, 1650–1715 275
20. Works Cited 303
21. Index 335