This chapter reviews the scholarly treatment of religion and race in the early modern Iberian Atlantic world and colonial Latin America and suggests new directions for research. Through a critical reflection of the place that Spain and colonial Latin America have held in histories of race in the West, the chapter challenges historians of the Americas to rethink their understanding of the relationship between religion and race in the early modern era. It highlights processes and ideologies visible in Spanish America and calls for investigation into similar dynamics in the Anglophone colonies.

heroes in serialised fiction), their contemporary anxieties (such as the erosion of traditional theology), their attempts to 'improve' the working-classes, and both their intended and actual readership. She argues that the parish magazine gave the Church an entrée into many homes, but had uses beyond the religious, not least as a local trade directory because of the numerous advertisements. It also gave a voice to obscure authors and editors, a forum where 'the humblest curate could be heard as loudly as any archbishop' (p. ). These voices from Anglicanism in the parishes deserve to be heard, and this volume is to be applauded for bringing such a rich archival source back on to the scholarly agenda. ANDREW ATHERSTONE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD