Stephanie Kirk

Sarah Rivett

Christianity took root in the Americas during the early modern period when a historically unprecedented migration brought European clergy, religious seekers, and explorers to the New World. Protestant and Catholic settlers undertook the arduous journey for a variety of motivations. Some fled corrupt theocracies and sought to reclaim ancient principles and Christian ideals in a remote unsettled territory. Others intended to glorify their home nations and churches by bringing new lands and subjects under the rule of their kings. Many imagined the indigenous peoples they encountered as "savages" awaiting the salvific force of Christ. Whether by overtly challenging European religious authority and traditions or by adapting to unforeseen hardship and resistance, these envoys reshaped faith, liturgy, and ecclesiology and fundamentally transformed the practice and theology of Christianity. Religious Transformations in the Early Modern Americas explores the impact of colonial encounters in the Atlantic world on the history of Christianity. Essays from across disciplines examine religious history from a spatial perspective, tracing geographical movements and population dispersals as they were shaped by the millennial designs and evangelizing impulses of European empires. At the same time, religion provides a provocative lens through which to view patterns of social restriction, exclusion, and tension, as well as those of acculturation, accommodation, and resistance in a comparative colonial context. Through nuanced attention to the particularities of faith, especially Anglo-Protestant settlements in North America and the Ibero-Catholic missions in Latin America, Religious Transformations in the Early Modern Americas illuminates the complexity and variety of the colonial world as it transformed a range of Christian beliefs. Contributors: Ralph Bauer, David A. Boruchoff, Matt Cohen, Sir John Elliot, Carmen Fernández-Salvador, Júnia Ferreira Furtado, Sandra M. Gustafson, David D. Hall, Stephanie Kirk, Asunción Lavrin, Sarah Rivett, Teresa Toulouse.

Religious Transformations in the Early Modern Americas

Each of the book's five chapters evokes a colonial Mexican cultural and intellectual sphere: the library, anatomy and medicine, spirituality, classical learning, and publishing and printing. Using an array of literary texts and historical documents and alongside secondary historical and critical materials, the author Stephanie Kirk demonstrates how Sor Juana used her poetry and other works to inscribe herself within the discourses associated with these cultural institutions and discursive spheres and thus challenge the male exclusivity of their precepts and precincts. Kirk illustrates how Sor Juana subverted the masculine character of erudition, writing herself into an all-male community of scholars. From there, Sor Juana clearly questions the gender politics at play in her exclusion, and undermines what seems to be the inextricable link previously forged between masculinity and institutional knowledge. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and the Gender Politics of Knowledge in Colonial Mexico opens up new readings of her texts through the lens of cultural and intellectual history and material culture in order to shed light on the production of knowledge in the seventeenth-century colonial Mexican society of which she was both a product and an anomaly.

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and the Gender Politics of Knowledge in Colonial Mexico

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Power Maths Year 5 Pupil Practice Book 5A

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Kate Henshall

The whole-class mastery approach that works for every child. Underpinned by the most effective teaching practices, and created by a team of mastery experts led by Series Editor Tony Staneff, Power Maths is designed to make the whole-class mastery teaching approach work for you, your children and your school. The powerful lesson structure of Power Maths comes to life through the high-quality textbooks. They provide a coherent structure through the curriculum and support children on their journey to deeper understanding. The textbooks set out the core learning objectives for the whole class. 'Discover', 'Share' and 'Think Together' sections help promote discussion and ensure mathematical ideas are introduced to children in a logical way to support conceptual understanding. Engaging contexts for problem solving help children to discover patterns and concepts for themselves in a meaningful way. Clear mathematical structures and representations (using the Concrete-Pictorial-Abstract approach) ensure children make connections and grasp concepts. Lovable characters prompt and question children to promote reasoning skills and help to build a growth mindset.

Power Maths Year 6 Textbook 6A

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