Women and Religion in Old and New Worlds

Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-0-415-93034-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Meyers, Debra

Dinan, Susan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Centers, Men at the Margins: The Wilderness Mission of the Secular Sisters of Early Montreal Reconsidered, William Henry Foster III The Netherlands and The New World Women in and out of the Public Church, 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 Puritan Women's Writing in Old and New England, Sylvia Brown Gender and Religion in England's Catholic Province, Debra Meyers Contributors Index

Über Autor(innen)

Debra Meyersis an assistant professor of history at Ohio State University.Susan Dinan is an assistant professor of history at C.W. Post campus of Long Island University.