The Penitente Brotherhood
Subtitle: Patriarchy and Hispano-Catholicism in New Mexico
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: October 9, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780801870552
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Christian communities & monasticism; History of religion; Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church; c 1800 to c 1900; Sociology - General; Hermanos Penitentes; Sociology; Religion; New Mexico; Sociology of Religion; Christianity - History - Catholic; Ethnic Studies - Hispanic American Studies; Mexico; Religion / General; Christianity - Catholic; Christianity - Catholicism
First sentence: In 1598 a company of soldiers and colonists under the command of Don Juan de Onate entered what is now New Mexico and established the first permanent Spanish settlements in the region.