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Sin and Confession in Colonial Peru: Spanish-Quechua Penitential Texts, 1560-1650
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /A central tenet of Catholic religious practice, confession relies upon the use of language between the penitent and his or her confessor. In the ...
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Saints and Sinners in the Cristero War: Stories of Martyrdom from Mexico
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /This provocative account of the persecution of the Catholic Church in Mexico in the 1920s and 1930s tells the stories of eight pivotal players. T...
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Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin includes approximately 17,000 words with the common meanings of the Latin terms found in church writings. ...
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Caminemos Con Jesus; Toward a Hispanic/Latino Theology of Accompaniment
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /While the growth in numbers and influence of the Hispanic community in the United States has been commented on widely, there has been no systemat...
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Crescent over Another Horizon: Islam in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latino USA
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Muslims have been shaping the Americas and the Caribbean for more than five hundred years, yet this interplay is frequently overlooked or miscons...
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Amazons, Wives, Nuns, and Witches: Women and the Catholic Church in Colonial Brazil, 1500-1822
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /The Roman Catholic church played a dominant role in colonial Brazil, so that women’s lives in the colony were shaped and constrained by the Churc...
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Go with God: Political Exhaustion and Evangelical Possibility in Suburban Brazil Volume 12
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Through deep attention to sense and feeling, Go with God grapples with the centrality of Evangelical faith in Rio de Janeiro's subúrbios, the city'...
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The Directory for Confessors, 1585: Implementing the Catholic Reformation in New Spain
HardcoverOriginal price $65.00 - Original price $65.00Original price $65.00$83.99$83.99 - $83.99Current price $83.99| /In the late sixteenth century, after the Council of Trent and the Catholic Reformation, the confessional became a key means to improve morals and ...
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Sustaining the Divine in Mexico Tenochtitlan: Nahuas and Catholicism, 1523-1700
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /What happened to indigenous life after contact with the Spanish? In the complex interaction of cultures, how and to what degree did traditional way...
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The Franciscans in Colonial Mexico
HardcoverOriginal price $65.00 - Original price $65.00Original price $65.00$83.99$83.99 - $83.99Current price $83.99| /Generations of scholars have studied the multifaceted experiences of the Franciscans in Mexico and how the Franciscan order shaped New Spain and th...
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Love and Despair: How Catholic Activism Shaped Politics and the Counterculture in Modern Mexico
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Love and Despair explores the multiple and mostly unknown ways progressive and conservative Catholic actors, such as priests, lay activists, journa...
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Charity for and by the Poor: Franciscan and Indigenous Confraternities in Mexico, 1527-1700
HardcoverOriginal price $55.00 - Original price $55.00Original price $55.00$72.99$72.99 - $72.99Current price $72.99| /Spanish colonization of Latin America in the sixteenth century continues to provoke scholarly debate. Spanish missionaries employed various strate...
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Guardians of Idolatry: Gods, Demons, and Priests in Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón's Treatise on the Heathen Superstitions
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /In 1629, Catholic priest Hernando Ruiz de Alarc n produced the Treatise on the Heathen Superstitions That Today Live among the Indians Native to Th...
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The Fifteenth Month: Aztec History in the Rituals of Panquetzaliztli
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /The Mexica (Aztecs) used a solar calendar made up of eighteen months, with each month dedicated to a specific god in their pantheon and celebrated...
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Vodou En Vogue: Fashioning Black Divinities in Haiti and the United States
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /In Haitian Vodou, spirits impact Black practitioners' everyday lives, tightly connecting the sacred and the secular. As Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha reve...
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Frontiers of Evangelization
HardcoverOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /The Spanish crown wanted native peoples in its American territories to be evangelized and, to that end, facilitated the establishment of mission...
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Vodou En Vogue: Fashioning Black Divinities in Haiti and the United States
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /In Haitian Vodou, spirits impact Black practitioners' everyday lives, tightly connecting the sacred and the secular. As Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha reve...
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Hey, Cancer! It's My Birthday Again
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Have you been told that God does not exist? Maybe you think that He's not real? That miracles are not authentic, or perhaps they were only part of ...
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Oye, Cáncer! Cumplo Años Otra Vez!
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Te han dicho que Dios no existe? Oh piensas que Él no es real? Que los milagros no son auténticos o a lo mejor que solo fueron parte del pasado...
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Healing the World: Gustavo Parajón, Public Health and Peacemaking Pioneer
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /In a world ravaged by crises, this inspiring biography of Nicaraguan public health pioneer and peacemaker Gustavo Parajón encourages readers to cou...
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Healing the World: Gustavo Parajón, Public Health and Peacemaking Pioneer
HardcoverOriginal price $34.99 - Original price $34.99Original price $34.99$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /In a world ravaged by crises, this inspiring biography of Nicaraguan public health pioneer and peacemaker Gustavo Parajón encourages readers to cou...
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Lost in the Storm: From prison to the pulpit
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The story of infamous Chicano rapper Sir Dyno of group Darkroom Familia. Pastor David Rocha shares his incredible story of being a Christian while ...
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A Walk With Father: Sharing My Story, Singing My Song
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /A dainty young girl tightly grips her father's strong, warm hand as together they trudge through the snow on this blustery Chicago evening. Little ...
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Step Step Jump - Transforming Trauma to Triumph from the 46th Floor
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Quintero's debut memoir combines riveting storytelling, compelling insight, and triumphant lived experience to bring depth and meaning to one of mo...
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