Description: Stephen J. C. Andes uses the story of Sofía del Valle, who resisted religious persecution in an era of Mexican revolutionary upheaval, to tell the history of Catholicism's global shift from north to south and the central role women played in Catholicism over the course of the twentieth century.
Review Quotes: "Stephen J. C. Andes' The Mysterious Sofía is a solid contribution to the growing body of literature on the lives of elite and conservative women in Latin America. Its function as an exploration of wealthy Catholic views establishes it as an important work, but the form in which Andes packages this knowledge is just as important."--Jason Dormady, Latin Americanist