Women and Religion in the Atlantic Age, 1550-1900

Contents: Introduction, Emily Clark and Mary Laven; Part I Old World Reforms: What are the women doing in Foxe's 'Book of Martyrs'?, Patrick Collinson; From devilry to sainthood: Mère Jeanne des Anges and Catholic Reform, Robin Briggs. Part II European Encounters with Africa and the Americas: Islands of women in a sea of change: Havana's female religious communities in the 18th-century Atlantic world, John J. Clune; When is a cloister not a cloister? Comparing women and religion in the colonies of France and Spain, Emily Clark; Crossing denominational boundaries: two early American women and religion in the Atlantic world, Annette Laing; Njinga of Matamba and the politics of Catholicism, Cathy Skidmore-Hess. Part III Revival: Religious sisters and revival in the English Catholic Church, 1840s-1880s, Susan O'Brien; Women and religious revival in post-Revolutionary France: Jeanne-Antide Thouret and the Sisters of charity of Besançon, Hazel Mills; Religion and the rise and fall of female benevolence in antebellum Savannah, 1801-60, Timothy J. Lockley; Index.