Mexico's Spiritual Reconquest

Indigenous Catholics and Father Pérez's Revolutionary Church
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-0-8263-4506-6
Verlag: University of New Mexico Press

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Mexico's Spiritual Reconquest brings to life a classically misunderstood pícaro: liberal soldier turned Catholic priest and revolutionary antipope, "Patriarch" Joaquín Pérez. Historian Matthew Butler weaves Pérez's controversial life story into a larger narrative about the relationship between religion, the state, and indigeneity in twentieth-century Mexico.

Mexico's Spiritual Reconquest is at once the history of an indigenous reformation and a deeply researched, beautifully written exploration of what can happen when revolutions try to assimilate powerful religious institutions and groups. The book challenges historians to reshape baseline assumptions about modern Mexico in order to see a revolutionary state that was deeply vested in religion and a Cristero War that was, in reality, a culture clash between Catholics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Katholizismus, Römisch-Katholische Kirche
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction
Chapter One. Habemus Pérez, 1925
Chapter Two. "Mexico's Newest Revolution": ICAM
Chapter Three. The Other Cristiada: Pérez's Second Coming
Chapter Four. "Our Beloved Peasants": ICAM on the Ejido
Chapter Five. "Acá todo es vida": ICAM as Local Religion
Chapter Six. Bronze Priests: Mexican Revolutionary Clergy
Conclusion. Pérez Is Dead, Viva Pérez

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Matthew Butler is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Popular Piety and Political Identity in Mexico's Cristero Rebellion: Michoacán, 1927-29.