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I found Hern ndez's book to be an insightful study of changes in the Catholic Church in Guatemala during the middle decades of the twentieth century. His work provides a base for reflecting on the importance of institutional decision-making for future generations of religious adherents who find themselves trying to make sense of what it means to act in social and political affairs. --Mathews Samson, Davidson College As an anthropologist of Christianity in Guatemala with some fifteen years of research experience, I learned a tremendous amount from this book and am excited to teach the book in graduate courses on Latin American Christianity. The book blazes new trails with a careful, creative, and original analysis of Guatemala's Roman Catholic Church in the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. It is an obvious and necessary contribution to the field and will certainly find a readership among Latin Americanists concerned about Christianity. --Kevin Lewis O'Neill, University of Toronto

""Hernández Sandoval convincingly shows that the move towards a progressive Catholicism was not straightforward, but rather the result of how distinct strategies of missionization aggregated over time to produce a vision of Catholic religious life that emphasized the agency of the laity."" —Reading Religion ""Bonar Hernández Sandoval's historical analysis of Guatemala's Catholic revolution demonstrates the capacity of religion and religiosity to generate social change over time. Using Catholic correspondence from both archives within Guatemala's Catholic Church and Vatican City archives, Hernández demonstrates how priest and parishioner jockeyed to transform the Catholic faith from a 'Romanized church' to a reformist, even revolutionary church over a crucial fifty-year span in Guatemala's turbulent, twentieth-century history. This artful analysis sheds light on many of the internal dynamics within the faith between parishioner and priest, missionary and lay leader, that would provoke state censorship and repression, and encourage insurgent mobilizations."" —Douglass Sullivan-González, University of Mississippi ""As an anthropologist of Christianity in Guatemala with some fifteen years of research experience, I learned a tremendous amount from this book and am excited to teach the book in graduate courses on Latin American Christianity. The book blazes new trails with a careful, creative, and original analysis of Guatemala's Roman Catholic Church in the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. It is an obvious and necessary contribution to the field and will certainly find a readership among Latin Americanists concerned about Christianity.""—Kevin Lewis O'Neill, University of Toronto ""I found Hernández's book to be an insightful study of changes in the Catholic Church in Guatemala during the middle decades of the twentieth century. His work provides a base for reflecting on the importance of institutional decision making for future generations of religious adherents who find themselves trying to make sense of what it means to act in social and political affairs.""—Matt Samson, Davidson College

I found Hern ndez's book to be an insightful study of changes in the Catholic Church in Guatemala during the middle decades of the twentieth century. His work provides a base for reflecting on the importance of institutional decision-making for future generations of religious adherents who find themselves trying to make sense of what it means to act in social and political affairs. --Mathews Samson, Davidson College As an anthropologist of Christianity in Guatemala with some fifteen years of research experience, I learned a tremendous amount from this book and am excited to teach the book in graduate courses on Latin American Christianity. The book blazes new trails with a careful, creative, and original analysis of Guatemala's Roman Catholic Church in the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. It is an obvious and necessary contribution to the field and will certainly find a readership among Latin Americanists concerned about Christianity. --Kevin Lewis O'Neill, University of Toronto Bonar Hern ndez Sandoval's historical analysis of Guatemala's Catholic Revolution demonstrates the capacity of religion and religiosity to generate social change over time. Using Catholic correspondence from both archives within Guatemala's Catholic Church and Vatican City archives, Hern ndez demonstrates how priest and parishioner jockeyed to transform the Catholic faith from a 'Romanized church' to a reformist, even revolutionary church over a crucial fifty-year span in Guatemala's turbulent, twentieth-century history. This artful analysis sheds light on many of the internal dynamics within the faith between parishioner and priest, missionary and lay leader, that would provoke state censorship and repression, and encourage insurgent mobilizations. --Douglass Sullivan-Gonz lez, University of Mississippi

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Bonar L. Hernández Sandoval is assistant professor of history at Iowa State University.

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