Carole A Myscofski

Biographic Data

ID772477
NAMECarole A Myscofski
GIVEN NAMESCarole A
FAMILY NAMEMyscofski
SIGNATUREMYSCOFSKI C A
AFFILIATIONSIllinois Wesleyan University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1990
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX0

  • The vanishing Inquisition: An inquisitor’s visit and its repercussions in seventeenth-century Brazil

    Carole A MyscofskiARTICLEColonial Latin American Review2022References: 3

  • Millenarian Movements

    Carole A Myscofski, David Thomas Orique et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Latin American…2020

    Latin American millenarian movements, rooted in the Christian expectation of Jesus’ thousand-year kingdom, creatively integrated Catholic folklore and apocalyptics with indigenous concepts of dualism and cyclic regeneration. Hopes for spiritual revitalization in indigenous communities, religious renewal among peasant groups, and ecclesiastical autonomy among dissident parties inspired rebellion when the colonial and post-colonial governments crea…

  • Amazons, Wives, Nuns, and Witches: Women and the Catholic Church in Colonial Brazil, 1500-1822

    Carole A MyscofskiBOOKAmazons, Wives, Nuns, and Witches2013

    The Roman Catholic church played a dominant role in colonial Brazil, so that women’s lives in the colony were shaped and constrained by the Church’s ideals for pure women, as well as by parallel concepts in the Iberian honor code for women. Records left by Jesuit missionaries, Roman Catholic church officials, and Portuguese Inquisitors make clear that women’s daily lives and their opportunities for marriage, education, and religious practice were…

  • Imagining Cannibals: European Encounters with Native Brazilian Women

    Carole A MyscofskiARTICLEHistory of Religions2007References: 1

    In his “Introduction” to Imagining Religion, Jonathan Z. Smith contends that second-order reflection on religion—imagining religion per se—is a relatively recent human endeavor.1 It is one, of course, that has engaged our group of essayists—indeed, as our life’s work and preoccupation. It is also the issue at stake in this essay: how human behaviors and groups are distinguished and labeled

  • Consultation On History, Method, and Theory in the Study of Religion

    Carole A Myscofski, Carole Myscofski et al.ARTICLEMethod & Theory in the Study of…2001

  • The Magic of Brazil: Practice and Prohibition in the Early Colonial Period, 1590-1620

    Carole A MyscofskiARTICLEHistory of Religions2000

  • Bounded Identities: Women and Religion in Colonial Brazil, 1550-1750

    Carole A MyscofskiARTICLEReligion1998References: 8

    This article examines the creation of women's gender identity in the religious discourse of colonial Brazil and documents the creation of two separate norms—one for elite women and another for slave, lower-class, and mixed-race women. The Roman Catholic Church, closely linked with the Portuguese monarchic state and its colonial ambitions, transmitted both norms in religious guidebooks, missionary letters and sermons. This summary centers on the d…

  • Priestess, Mother, Sacred Sister: Religions Dominated by Women. Susan Starr Sered

    Carole A MyscofskiARTICLEHistory of Religions1998

  • When Men Walk Dry: Portuguese Messianism in Brazil

    Sonny B Davis, Carole A MyscofskiARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1990