Popular Piety and Political Identity in Mexico's Cristero Rebellion: Michoacán, 1927-29

ISBN-13: 9780197262986 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 272 str.

Matthew Butler

Opis

Dr Butler provides a new interpretation of the cristero war (1926-29) which divided Mexico's peasantry into rival camps loyal to the Catholic Church (cristero) or the Revolution (agrarista). Focusing on the state of Michoacan in western-central Mexico, the book shows how matters of faith were as crucial to peasants on both sides as political factors. Based on oral testimonies and evidence from many ecclesiastical and state archives, this study makes an important contribution to the religious history of the Mexican Revolution.
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Recenzje

Butler's well-crafted, elegantly written, and accessible study combines skilful analysis of a wide-range of archival sources ... Popular Piety and Political Identity will undoubtedly serve as a model for historians of the revolution seeking to incorporate religion into their analysis of Mexico's maddeningly complex regional history.