Religion in New Spain

by Susan Schroeder (Editor), Stafford Poole (Editor)

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  Paperback
  2015

  $58.40

  Presents an overview of the history of colonial religious culture. The contributors reveal that Spanish conquest was not the end-all of indigenous culture and that the Virgin of Guadalupe was a myth-in-the-making by locals as well as foreigners. Furthermore, nuns and priests had real lives and the institutional colonial church was seldom if ever immune to political or economic influence.