Amazons, Wives, Nuns, and Witches: Women and the Catholic Church in Colonial Brazil, 1500-1822
Author:   Carole A. Myscofski
Publisher:   University of Texas Press
Volume:   32
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Pages:   320
Publication Date:   15 November 2013
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Author:   Carole A. Myscofski
Publisher:   University of Texas Press
Imprint:   University of Texas Press
Volume:   32
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.399kg
ISBN:  

9781477302194


ISBN 10:   1477302190
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   15 November 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Acknowledgments Introduction. Amazons and Others Chapter 1. Amazons and Cannibals: Imagining Brazilian Women in the Colonial Period Chapter 2. The Body of Virtues: The Christian Ideal for Brazilian Women Chapter 3. Reading, Writing, and Sewing: Education for Brazilian Women Chapter 4. Before the Church Doors: Women as Wives and Concubines Chapter 5. Freiras and Recolhidas: The Reclusive Life for Brazilian Women Chapter 6. Women and Magic: Religious Dissidents in Colonial Brazil Conclusion. Closing the Colonial Era Notes Bibliography Index

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The insights related to women in convents and changes in magic as an aspect of religious practice and everyday life will be interesting to scholars. * The Americas *


The insights related to women in convents and changes in magic as an aspect of religious practice and everyday life will be interesting to scholars. The Americas


The insights related to women in convents and changes in magic as an aspect of religious practice and everyday life will be interesting to scholars. * The Americas *


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Carole A. Myscofski is McFee Professor of Religion at Illinois Wesleyan University. She served as the area editor for ‘New Religions’ for the HarperCollins Dictionary of Religion and as the editor of the American Academy of Religion Academy Series published by Oxford University Press.

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