, withholding absolution as a threat. 3 Furthermore, the fact that Rodríguez was a racially mixed mulatto, and not indigenous—the population for whom bilingual confessional manuals were geared—points to how racialization intersected with other forms of social
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to their congregants, or spiritual children. He also demonstrates that printed confessional manuals were one form of staging this cross-generational abuse, these manuals exhorting priests to solicit ever more specific details about sexual sins, the