Alone at the AltarBy 1700, Guatemala's capital was a mixed race "city of women." As in many other cities across colonial Spanish America, labor and migration patterns in Guatemala produced an urban female majority and high numbers of single women, widows, and female household heads. In this history of religious and spiritual life in the Guatemalan capital, Brianna Leavitt Alcntara focuses on the sizeable population of ordinary, non elite women living outside of both