A part of  chapter 15 that is discussed in depth is the conversion and adaption in Spanish America. What we learn in this section was that Europeans were ruthless in their quest to eliminate the presence of any local religions. "They destroyed religious images and ritual objects, publicly urinated on native "idols, desecrated the remains of ancestors, flogged "idolaters," and held religious trails and "processions of shame" aimed at humiliating offenders". "The bishop of Mexico proudly claimed that he destroyed 500 pagan shrines and 20,000 idols" (729). Though some people were willing to convert, others found no benefit in it. For example, many women felt that they did not have a role anymore in the religious aspect of their life. Women who were once priestess, shamans, or ritual specialists, had no place in a Catholic church, which of course was led by an all-male clergy. Also, because of the destruction that came along with the European idea of an elusive religious truth, there came an aggressive resistance from many natives. Guaman Poma de Ayala, a Peruvian nobleman commented on the native women's opinions toward Christianity. He quotes, "They do not confess; they do not attend catechism classes… nor do they go to mass… And resuming their ancient customs and idolatry, they do not want to serve God or the crown" (729). I just can not imagine being forced into something that I have no desire in doing. These women literally had religious positions where they were in charge and in power. However, now men rule the clergy and everything becomes violent. One of my favorite parts to read was about the Taki Onqoy or the "dancing sickness". This was considered a religious revivalist movement by the natives where traveling dancers and teachers, possessed by the spirits of local gods, predicted that an alliance of Andean deities would soon overcome the Christian God and inflict Europeans with the same diseases that they brought to the Americans, and restore the word of the Andes to an imagined earlier harmony.