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Alone at the Altar: Single Women and Devotion in Guatemala, 1670-1870

Alone at the Altar: Single Women and Devotion in Guatemala, 1670-1870

Leavitt-Alcántara, Brianna

Hardcover

Central American HistoryGeneral ChristianityGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1503603687
ISBN13: 9781503603684
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Jan 9 2018
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

By 1700, Guatemala's capital was a mixed-race city of women. As in many other cities across colonial Spanish America, labor and migration patterns in Guatemala produced an urban female majority and high numbers of single women, widows, and female household heads. In this history of religious and spiritual life in the Guatemalan capital, Brianna Leavitt-Alcántara focuses on the sizeable population of ordinary, non-elite women living outside of both marriage and convent. Although officials often expressed outright hostility towards poor unmarried women, many of these women managed to position themselves at the forefront of religious life in the city.

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