"This nuanced and compelling volume charts religion's invention, reinvention, and interventions across the geographies of the Americas in early modernity. Editors Kirk and Rivett are to be highly commended for their clear voice, light touch, and firm hand in this perfect assembly of essays representing interdisciplinary expertise, spatial reach, and thoughtful, carefully moderated comparative analysis. A model set of important studies: fascinating, articulate, smart, and, I dare say, transformative of the ways we think about early modern American histories, religions, populations, and practices." (Sally M. Promey, Yale University) "How was Christianity not only transformed in the New World but transformed by it? This superb collection of essays shows that the answers to this question for Iberian Catholicism and English Protestantism are neither identical, nor as opposed, as traditionally conceived. Stephanie Kirk's and Sarah Rivett's Religious Transformations in the Early Modern Americas is particularly commendable for giving equal weight to both of these religious traditions, setting a new standard for edited collections that seek to represent the hemispheric Americas. As readers accompany an outstanding interdisciplinary group of scholars through the main sites of religious transformation in the American colonies-from demonology and martyrdom to piety and missionization-they will be challenged to think anew about North-South comparisons and the relationship between religion and modernity in the early Americas." (Lisa Voigt, Ohio State University)
