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Article: The Penitente Brotherhood: Patriarchy and Hispano-Catholicism in New Mexico.(Book review)
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- June 1, 2007
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The Penitente Brotherhood: Patriarchy and Hispano-Catholicism in New Mexico. By Michael P. Carroll. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. ix + 270 pp. $45.00 cloth.
Michael P. Carroll, professor of sociology and author of many books about Catholic devotionalism, is a discerning, persuasive man. In examining the Penitente Brotherhood of New Mexico, he sifts through evidence and scholarship like a jeweler, keen to every gem of worth and critical of every flaw. His aim is to subvert the stories of popular imagination--about the Penitentes, about Padre Antonio Jos6 Martinez (who is associated with their development), and about the religiosity of ...