... century in middle-class America handed both consumption and religion to women. Barton thought he was equal to the task, however, if he could convince people that the man/God at the center of their religion— Jesus—was not, in fact, long-suffering, meek, and lowly, but a charming, muscular man’s man who...

...During the early years of the twentieth century, Puerto Rico was home to numerous man-gods and woman-virgins. Two of them were Elenita, a woman regarded as Our Lady of Mt. Carmel incarnate, and a brotherhood of itinerant preachers known as the Hermanos Cheos. Elenita, the woman-virgin...