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Catholicism
Clles
Cristero War
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Indigeneity
Jose Joaquin
Jose Joaquin Perez Budar
La Solead
Liberation theology
Mexican Catholic Apostolic Church
Mexican Revolution
Mexico
Perez Budar
Plutarco Elias
Plutarco Elias Calles
Product details
- ISBN 9780826345073
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 31 Dec 2024
- Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
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.
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.
