"An excellent tool for introducing students to the issues facing scholars addressing colonial religious culture."—Choice
"A welcome contribution to the social history of religion in Latin America."—Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History
"Readers interested in the cultural history of popular religion in colonial Spanish America will find the book richly informative. Those interested in methodology will be rewarded with a glimpse of how a masterful scholar engages his sources. Finally, the book is an exemplary work of translation. . . . In sum, Marvels and Miracles amounts to a valedictory contribution to the scholarship on religion in late colonial Spanish America by a historian who has done much over the last two decades to define the field."—A Contracorriente
