Ivonne del Valle

Preaching Power

History & Biography

“Charles Witschorik's analysis of the multifaceted forms in which gender was deployed in sermons in New Spain, from the Baroque period to the consolidation of independence, offers an incisive history of the Catholic Church struggle for political space in peoples' imaginaries. This is one of the very few studies of sermons, the vehicle used by priests on an everyday basis, to create a religious public sphere.”