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Emotions, Art, and Christianity in the Transatlantic World, 1450–1800 is a collection of studies variously exploring the role of visual and material culture in shaping early modern emotional experiences. The volume’s transatlantic framework moves from The Netherlands, Spain, and Italy to Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, and the Philippines, and centers on visual culture as a means to explore how emotions differ in their local and global “contexts” amidst the many shifts occurring c. 1450–1800. These themes are examined through the lens of art informed by religious ideas, especially Catholicism, with each essay probing how religiously inflected art stimulated, molded, and encoded emotions. Contributors: Elena FitzPatrick Sifford, Alison C. Fleming, Natalia Keller, Walter S. Melion, Olaya Sanfuentes, Patricia Simons, Dario Velandia Onofre, and Charles M. Rosenberg.

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Emotions, Art and Christianity is a beautifully constructed edited collection that enhances our understanding of early modern faith practices and their emotional dimensions across the transatlantic world. Katie Barclay, University of Adelaide. In: Journal of Jesuit Studies, Vol. 9, No. 3 (2022), pp. 467-469.

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Heather Graham, Ph.D. (2010 University of California, Los Angeles), is Associate Professor of Art History at California State University, Long Beach, specializing in Italian Renaissance art. She is editor of Sensuous Suffering and Affective Pain in Early Modern Europe and the Spanish Americas (Brill, 2018). Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank, Ph.D. (2009 University of California, Los Angeles), is Dean of Content and Strategy, Smarthistory, specializing in Ibero-American Art. She is author of Holy Organ or Unholy Idol? The Sacred Heart in the Art, Religion, and Politics of New Spain (Brill, 2018).

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