Introduction / Jodi Bilinkoff
St. Anne imagery and maternal archetypes in Spain and Mexico / Charlene Villaseñor Black
Querying the spirit: the rules of the Haitian Lwa / Joan Dayan
Diego de Ocaña's hagiography of new and renewed devotion in colonial Peru / Kenneth Mills
Old bones and beautiful words: the spiritual contestation between Shaman and Jesuit in the Guaraní missions / Dot Tuer
St. Anthony in Portuguese America: saint of the restoration / Ronaldo Vainfas
PART 2. HOLY WOMEN, HOLY MEN
Francisco Losa and Gregorio López: spiritual friendship and identity formation on the New Spain frontier / Jodi Bilinkoff
In the shadow of the cloister: representations of female holiness in New France / Dominique Deslandres
Isaac Jogues: from martyrdom to sainthood / Paul Perron
Martyred by the saints: Quaker executions in seventeenth-century Massachusetts / Carla Gardina Pestana
St. Palafox: metaphorical images of disputed sainthood / Antonio Rubial García
PART 3. THE USES OF THE SACRED
Writing a relic: the uses of hagiography in New France / Julia Boss
Iroquois virgin: the story of Catherine Tekakwitha in New France and New Spain / Allan Greer
"Redeemer of America": Rosa de Lima (1586-1617), the dynamics of identity, and canonization / Kathleen Ann Myers
Mexico's virgin of Guadalupe in the seventeenth century: hagiography and beyond / William B. Taylor
