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Title Faith and impiety in revolutionary Mexico / edited by Matthew Butler.

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 General Collection  BL2530.M4 F35 2007    AVAILABLE
Description vi, 295 pages ; 25 cm.
Edition First edition.
Series Studies of the Americas
Studies of the Americas.
Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: A revolution in spirit? Mexico, 1910-40 / Matthew Butler -- The mentality and modus operandi of Revolutionary anticlericalism / Alan Knight -- Mexico's "ritual constant ": religion and liberty from colony to post- Revolution / Fernando Cervantes -- Protestants, Freemasons, and Spiritists : non-Catholic religious sociabilities and Mexico's revolutionary movement, 1910-20 / Jean-Pierre Bastian -- Ethereal allies : Spiritism and the revolutionary struggle in Hidalgo / Keith Brewster and Claire Brewster -- The regional dynamics of anticlericalism and defanaticization in Revolutionary Mexico / Adrian A. Bantjes.
"The first encounter": Catholic politics in revolutionary Jalisco, 1917-19 / Robert Curley -- Trouble afoot? Pilgrimage in cristero Mexico City / Matthew Butler -- Revolutionary and not-so-revolutionary negotiations in Catholic annulment, bigamy, and divorce trials : the Archdiocese of Mexico, 1929-40 / Kristina A. Boylan -- Religious conflict and Catholic resistance in 1930s Oaxaca / Jean Meyer -- "Anti-priests" versus Catholic-socialists in 1930s Campeche : federal teachers, revolutionary communes, and anticlericalism / Ben Fallaw -- "El Indio Gabriel" : new religious perspectives among the indigenous in Garrido Canabal's Tabasco (1927-30) / Massimo De Giuseppe -- A revolution in local Catholicism? Oaxaca, 1928-34 / Edward Wright-Rios -- "The priest's party" : local Catholicism and panismo in Huajuapam de León / Benjamin Smith.
Note While the spiritual history of Mexico after the 1910 Revolution is often essentialized as a church-state power struggle, this book reveals the complexity of interections between revolution & religion.
Subject Mexico -- Religion -- 20th century.
Mexico -- History -- Revolution, 1910-1920 -- Religious aspects.
Christianity and politics -- Mexico -- History -- 20th century.
Christianity and politics -- Catholic Church -- History -- 20th century.
Mexico -- History -- Revolution, 1910-1920 -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.
Catholic Church -- Mexico -- History -- 20th century.
Mexico -- Church history -- 20th century.
Alt Author Butler, Matthew (Matthew John Blakemore)
Standard # 9781403983817
140398381X

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