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From the cult of Saint Anne to the obsession with the Virgin of Guadalupe, from Saint Anthony who competed with Christ for popularity in Brazil, to Jesuits who mixed freely with shamans that talked with the gods, this exciting new anthology examines the conversion of the colonized. The essays examine how New World spirits morphed into Old World saints - for example, the spirit of love transformed into the Virgin Mary - as well as the implications of the canonization of the first American saint. Colonial Saints illustrates the complex and intimate connections among confessional life writing, canonization, and the practices of the Inquisition. There was a dynamic exchange involving local agendas, the courts in Spain and France, and, of course, Rome. This bold collection clearly shows the interplay between slavery and spirituality, conversion and control, and the links between the sacred and the political.
From the cult of Saint Anne to the obsession with the Virgin of Guadalupe, from Saint Anthony who competed with Christ for popularity in Brazil, to Jesuits who mixed freely with shamans that talked with the gods, this exciting new anthology examines the conversion of the colonized. The essays examine how New World spirits morphed into Old World saints - for example, the spirit of love transformed into the Virgin Mary - as well as the implications of the canonization of the first American saint. Colonial Saints illustrates the complex and intimate connections among confessional life writing, canonization, and the practices of the Inquisition. There was a dynamic exchange involving local agendas, the courts in Spain and France, and, of course, Rome. This bold collection clearly shows the interplay between slavery and spirituality, conversion and control, and the links between the sacred and the political.
The Hackett edition of Teresa of Avila's spiritual autobiography
features Kieran Kavanaugh and Otilio Rodriguez's authoritative
translation of The Book of Her Life with a new Introduction by Jodi
Bilinkoff that will prove especially valuable to students of Early
Modern Spain, the history of Christian spirituality, and classic
women writers. A map, chronology, and index are also included.
In early modern Catholic Europe and its colonies priests frequently
developed close relationships with pious women, serving as their
spiritual directors during their lives, and their biographers after
their deaths. In this richly illustrated book, Jodi Bilinkoff
explores the ways in which clerics related to those female
penitents whom they determined were spiritually gifted, and how
they conveyed the live stories of these women to readers. The
resulting popular literatures of hagiography and spiritual
autobiography produced hundreds of texts designed to establish
models of behavior for the Catholic faithful in the period between
the advent of printing and the beginning of the modern
age.Bilinkoff finds that confessional relations and the texts that
document them reveal much about gender and social values. She uses
life narratives, primarily from Spain, but also from France, Italy,
Portugal, Spanish America, and French Canada, to examine the ways
in which clerics presented female penitents as exemplary, and how
they constructed their own identities around their interactions
with exceptional women. These multilayered texts, she suggests,
offer compelling accounts of individuals caught up in the pursuit
of holiness, and provide a key to understanding the resilience of
Catholic culture in an age of religious change and conflict.
The Avila of Saint Teresa provides both a fascinating account of
social and religious change in one important Castilian city and a
historical analysis of the life and work of the religious mystic
Saint Teresa of Jesus. Jodi Bilinkoff's rich socioeconomic history
of sixteenth-century Avila illuminates the conditions that helped
to shape the religious reforms for which the city's most famous
citizen is celebrated. Bilinkoff takes as her subject the period
during which Avila became a center of intense religious activity
and the home of a number of influential mystics and religious
reformers. During this time, she notes, urban expansion and
increased economic opportunity fostered the social and political
aspirations of a new "middle class" of merchants, professionals,
and minor clerics. This group supported the creation of religious
institutions that fostered such values as individual spiritual
revitalization, religious poverty, and apostolic service to the
urban community. According to Bilinkoff, these reform movements
provided an alternative to the traditional, dynastic style of
spirituality expressed by the ruling elite, and profoundly
influenced Saint Teresa in her renewal of Carmelite monastic life.
A focal point of the book is the controversy surrounding Teresa's
foundation of a new convent in August 1562. Seeking to discover why
people in Avila strenuously opposed this ostensibly innocent act
and to reveal what distinguished Teresa's convent from the many
others in the city, Bilinkoff offers a detailed examination of the
social meaning of religious institutions in Avila. Historians of
early modern Europe, especially those concerned with the history of
religious culture, urban history, and women's history, specialists
in religious studies, and other readers interested in the life of
Saint Teresa or in the history of Catholicism will welcome The
Avila of Saint Teresa. First published by Cornell University Press
in 1989, this new edition of The Avila of Saint Teresa includes a
new introduction in which the author provides an overview of the
scholarship that has proliferated and evolved over the past 25
years on topics covered in her book. This new edition also include
an updated bibliography of works published since 1989 that address
topics and themes discussed in her book.
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