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Author Leavitt-Alcántara, Brianna, author.

Title Alone at the altar : single women and devotion in Guatemala, 1670-1870 / Brianna Leavitt-Alcántara
Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource
Contents City of women, city of God : poor, single, and holy in Santiago de Guatemala -- Unlikely allies : missionaries and laywomen -- Sex, honor, and devotion -- To educate and evangelize : laywomen, clergy, and late-colonial girls' schools -- The controversial ecstasy of Sor María Teresa Aycinena -- "With knives drawn" : gender, devotion, and politics after independence
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Catholic Church -- Guatemala -- History
Catholic Church -- History.
SUBJECT Catholic Church fast
Subject Single women -- Religious life -- Guatemala -- History
Electronic books.
e-books.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- Catholic.
HISTORY -- Latin America -- Central America.
Single women -- Religious life
SUBJECT Guatemala -- Religious life and customs
Guatemala -- Church history
Subject Guatemala
Genre/Form Church history
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017030514
ISBN 9781503604391
150360439X