"Cogent, convincing, and full of interesting stories, this original work by Marie-Theresa Hernández makes us reconsider the old boundaries opposing Christians and Jews in the Hispanic old and new worlds."
Jean-Michel Rabaté
University of Pennsylvania
"Hernández does well to stir the pot and to challenge other scholars to wrestle with existent sources ot make visible the hidden histories ... Read moreof conversos and judaizantes in the Americas."
Religious Studies Review
"Hernández boldly reinstates the occluded converso influence on the Mexican and Spanish Churches through original interpretations of her fascinating cache brimming with textual and iconographic materials of multiple religious significations."
Dalia Kandiyoti
author of Migrant Sites: America, Place, and Diaspora Literatures
"An intriguing example of Jewish-Christian syncretism that speaks to the ways in which we can access and interpret religious identity."
Bulletin of Hispanic Studies
"An enchanting work that will guide the general public, student, and scholars through the convoluted cultural, religious, and human relations that are the history of the conversos."
Renaissance Quarterly
"A welcome contribution to the religious history of Spain and colonial Latin America."
The Sixteenth Century Journal
"Hernández does well to stir the pot and to challenge other scholars to wrestle with existent sources ot make visible the hidden histories of conversos and judaizantes in the Americas."
Religious Studies Review
"Cogent, convincing, and full of interesting stories, this original work by Marie-Theresa Hernández makes us reconsider the old boundaries opposing Christians and Jews in the Hispanic old and new worlds."
Jean-Michel Rabaté
University of Pennsylvania
"Hernández boldly reinstates the occluded converso influence on the Mexican and Spanish Churches through original interpretations of her fascinating cache brimming with textual and iconographic materials of multiple religious significations."
Dalia Kandiyoti
author of Migrant Sites: America, Place, and Diaspora Literatures
"An intriguing example of Jewish-Christian syncretism that speaks to the ways in which we can access and interpret religious identity."
Bulletin of Hispanic Studies
"An enchanting work that will guide the general public, student, and scholars through the convoluted cultural, religious, and human relations that are the history of the conversos."
Renaissance Quarterly
"A welcome contribution to the religious history of Spain and colonial Latin America."
The Sixteenth Century Journal
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