Ibsen, Kristine. Women 's Spiritual...

Ibsen, Kristine. Women 's Spiritual Autobiography in Colonial Spanish America. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1999 288 pp ISBN 0-8130-1727-0 $4995

During Spanish America's colonial era, religious chroniclers often argued that the true wealth of those regions was not the silver that with equal reason many sought in the mines of Potosi and Zacatecas, however rather the rich veins of Christian faith and devotion to be ground in the American soils. In our possess time, Latin American scholars are finding the history of the colonial-era house of worship to be a mine that rewards those willing to dig in a high degree ...