... , cultural, and religious aspects of society, religious counterculture movements, evangelical imperialists, and events like Passion all raise questions surrounding the validity of an individual's outward display of devotion. Pardo cites stories in which Mexican friars interpreted tears, enthusiasm, and traveling several leagues to confess at face value and attributed these acts of devotion to evidence that the indigenous were successful in ... ...

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