Faith and Impiety in Revolutionary Mexico

by Butler, Matthew

• ISBN13: 9781403983817
• ISBN10: 140398381X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-11-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

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. Looking at anticlericalism, indigenous cults and Catholic pilgrimage, these authors reveal that the Revolution was a period of genuine religious change, as well as social upheaval.

Author Biography

Matthew Butler is Lecturer in Latin American Studies, Queen's University Belfast.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Revolution in Spirit? Mexico, 1910-40	p. 1
The Mentality and Modus Operandi of Revolutionary Anticlericalism	p. 21
Mexico's "Ritual Constant": Religion and Liberty from Colony to Post-Revolution	p. 57
Protestants, Freemasons, and Spiritists: Non-Catholic Religious Sociabilities and Mexico's Revolutionary Movement, 1910-20	p. 75
Ethereal Allies: Spiritism and the Revolutionary Struggle in Hidalgo	p. 93
The Regional Dynamics of Anticlericalism and Defanaticization in Revolutionary Mexico	p. 111
"The First Encounter": Catholic Politics in Revolutionary Jalisco, 1917-19	p. 131
Trouble Afoot? Pilgrimage in Cristero Mexico City	p. 149
Revolutionary and Not-So-Revolutionary Negotiations in Catholic Annulment, Bigamy, and Divorce Trials: The Archdiocese of Mexico, 1929-40	p. 167
Religious Conflict and Catholic Resistance in 1930s Oaxaca	p. 185
"Anti-Priests" versus Catholic-Socialists in 1930s Campeche: Federal Teachers, Revolutionary Communes, and Anticlericalism	p. 203
"El Indio Gabriel": New Religious Perspectives among the Indigenous in Garrido Canabal's Tabasco (1927-30)	p. 225
A Revolution in Local Catholicism? Oaxaca, 1928-34	p. 243
"The Priest's Party": Local Catholicism and Panismo in Huajuapam de Leon	p. 261
List of Contributors	p. 279
Index	p. 283
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