Colonial Saints: Discovering the Holy in the Americas, 1500-1800
This important and fascinating collection ranges from New France through Massachusetts, Mexico, the Caribbean into Peru and beyond.  The methodological and topical ranges--voodou, child-bearing, race, art, devotion, to name a few--are truly impressive.  The book fulfills its promise of transporting the reader beyond the saints into the mysteries of colonial culture..– John W. O'Malley, Professor of Church History, Weston Jesuit School of TheologyThese pathbreaking essays move us beyond the metaphor of spiritual conquest to a more complex understanding of colonial American religious cultures in the making.Colonial Saintsgives close, convincing readings of its agents, gender politics, visual economies, and much more..–Kathryn Burns, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillGreer and Bilinkoff have organized a project both novel in its goal and ambitious in its scope, providing a tantalizing and kaleidoscopic picture of sanctity and its cult in the colonial Americas.Colonial Saintsmarks the first steps in what will clearly be a long and important new scholarly journey..–Thomas Head, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, The City University of New YorkThis important collection of essays provides a superb account of the emergence of distinctive new forms of hagiography in the Americas... [and] provides an invaluable demonstration of the importance of a comparative approach to the religious history of the Americas..–American Historical ReviewIt is usefull and informative for any type of researcher.–Alejandra Rengifo, Central Michigan University,Sixteenth Century Journal, 2004