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Title Faith and impiety in revolutionary Mexico / edited by Matthew Butler
Edition 1st ed
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 295 pages)
Series Studies of the Americas
Studies of the Americas.
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
Summary While Mexico's spiritual history after the 1910 Revolution is often essentialized as a church-state power struggle, this book reveals the complexity of interactions between revolution and religion
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Catholic Church -- Mexico -- History -- 20th century
SUBJECT Catholic Church. fast (OCoLC)fst00531720
Subject Christianity and politics -- Mexico -- History -- 20th century
Christianity and politics -- Catholic Church -- History -- 20th century
Political science & theory.
Social theory.
RELIGION -- History.
TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Religious.
Politics and Government.
Christianity and politics.
Christianity and politics -- Catholic Church.
Religion.
War -- Religious aspects.
SUBJECT Mexico -- Religion -- 20th century
Mexico -- History -- Revolution, 1910-1920 -- Religious aspects. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2020006227
Mexico -- History -- Revolution, 1910-1920 -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2020006137
Mexico -- Church history -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86003714
Subject Mexico.
Genre/Form Church history.
History.
Form Electronic book
Author Butler, Matthew (Matthew John Blakemore)
ISBN 9780230608801
0230608809
1281915270
9781281915276