 | Religious Transformations in the Early Modern Americas Subjects: Christianity -- North America; Christianity -- South America; North America -- Church history; South America -- Church history; Missions -- North America; Missions -- South America; North America -- Religion; South America -- Religion; Religious Transformations in the Early Modern Americas shows what happened to Christianity when Old World doctrine and belief crossed the Atlantic and collided with New World realities. Essays from across disciplines explore the impact of colonial contexts on the symbolic institutions of Protestantism and Catholicism. Stephanie Kirk is Associate Professor of Spanish at Washington University in St. Louis and author of Convent Life in Colonial Mexico: A Tale of Two Communities. Sarah Rivett is Associate Professor of English at Princeton University and is author of The Science of the Soul in Colonial New England. |
