Focusing on cemetery burials in late-eighteenth-century Mexico, "Alone Before God" provides a window onto the contested origins of modernity in Mexico. By investigating the religious and political debates surrounding the initiative to transfer the burials of prominent citizens from urban to suburban cemeteries, Pamela Voekel challenges the characterization of Catholicism in Mexico as an intractable and monolithic institution that had to be forcibly dragged into the modern world. Drawing on the archival research of wills, public documents, and other texts from late-colonial and...
Focusing on cemetery burials in late-eighteenth-century Mexico, "Alone Before God" provides a window onto the contested origins of modernity in Mexico...
Focusing on cemetery burials in late-eighteenth-century Mexico, "Alone Before God" provides a window onto the contested origins of modernity in Mexico. By investigating the religious and political debates surrounding the initiative to transfer the burials of prominent citizens from urban to suburban cemeteries, Pamela Voekel challenges the characterization of Catholicism in Mexico as an intractable and monolithic institution that had to be forcibly dragged into the modern world. Drawing on the archival research of wills, public documents, and other texts from late-colonial and...
Focusing on cemetery burials in late-eighteenth-century Mexico, "Alone Before God" provides a window onto the contested origins of modernity in Mexico...
