American Exceptionalism and the Satanic Epic in the New World

  • Javier Villa-Flores University of Illinois at Chicago
Keywords Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, american exceptionalism, colonial, puritanism, conquistadores
Keywords Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, american exceptionalism, colonial, puritanism, conquistadores

Abstract

A review of Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra's Puritan Conquistadors: Iberianizing the Atlantic, 1550-1700 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006).

Author Biography

Javier Villa-Flores, University of Illinois at Chicago
Javier Villa-Flores es profesor asociado en la Universidad de Illinois en Chicago. Hatrabajo temas relacionados con religion, colonialismo, y la historia social del lenguaje enLatinoamerica colonial. Es autor de dos libros y varios articulos en libros y revistasacademicas. Entre sus publicaciones mas recientes se encuentran “Talking Through theChest: Divination and Ventriloquism Among African Slave Women in Seventeenth-Century Mexico” (Colonial Latin American Review, 2005), “Religion, Politics,andSalvation: Latin American Millenarian Movements” (Radical History Review, 2007),y Dangerous Speech: A Social History of Blasphemy in Colonial Mexico (University ofArizona Press, 2006).
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Published
2008-10-05
Issue
Vol. 5 No. 2 (2008): Winter 2008
Section
Reviews: Religion and Colonialism