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Religious culture in modern Mexico / edited by Martin Austin Nesvig.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Jaguar books on Latin AmericaPublication details: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2007.Description: 1 online resource (291 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781461643029
  • 1461643023
  • 1299806015
  • 9781299806016
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Religious Culture in Modern Mexico.DDC classification:
  • 200.972 22
LOC classification:
  • BL2530.M4 R45 2007eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Miserables and citizens: Indians, legal pluralism, and religious practice in early republican Mexico / Matthew D. O'Hara -- "Para formar el corazon religioso de los jovenes": processes of change in collective religiosity in nineteenth-century Oaxaca / Daniela Traffano -- Mexican laywomen spearhead a Catholic revival: the Ladies of Charity, 1863-1910 / Silvia Marina Arrom -- Liberal religion: the schism of 1861 / Pamela Voekel -- Priests and caudillos in the novel of the Mexican nation / Alejandro Cortazar -- "A new political religious order": church, state, and workers in Porfirian Mexico / Mark Overmyer-Velazquez -- Rights, rule, and religion: Old Colony Mennonites and Mexico's transition to the free market, 1920-2000 / Jason Dormady -- Visions of women: revelation, gender, and Catholic resurgence / Edward Wright-Rios -- Juan Soldado: the popular canonization of a confessed rapist-murderer / Paul J. Vanderwood -- Religion and the Mexican revolution: toward a new historiography / Adrian Bantjes.
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Summary: This nuanced book considers the role of religion and religiosity in modern Mexico, breaking new ground with an emphasis on popular religion and its relationship to politics. The contributors highlight the multifaceted role of religion, illuminating the ways that religion and religious devotion have persisted and changed since Mexican independence. Focusing on individual stories and vignettes and on local elements of religion, the contributors show that despite efforts to secularize society, religion continues to be a strong component of Mexican culture. Portraying the complexity of religiosity.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)634841

Miserables and citizens: Indians, legal pluralism, and religious practice in early republican Mexico / Matthew D. O'Hara -- "Para formar el corazon religioso de los jovenes": processes of change in collective religiosity in nineteenth-century Oaxaca / Daniela Traffano -- Mexican laywomen spearhead a Catholic revival: the Ladies of Charity, 1863-1910 / Silvia Marina Arrom -- Liberal religion: the schism of 1861 / Pamela Voekel -- Priests and caudillos in the novel of the Mexican nation / Alejandro Cortazar -- "A new political religious order": church, state, and workers in Porfirian Mexico / Mark Overmyer-Velazquez -- Rights, rule, and religion: Old Colony Mennonites and Mexico's transition to the free market, 1920-2000 / Jason Dormady -- Visions of women: revelation, gender, and Catholic resurgence / Edward Wright-Rios -- Juan Soldado: the popular canonization of a confessed rapist-murderer / Paul J. Vanderwood -- Religion and the Mexican revolution: toward a new historiography / Adrian Bantjes.

This nuanced book considers the role of religion and religiosity in modern Mexico, breaking new ground with an emphasis on popular religion and its relationship to politics. The contributors highlight the multifaceted role of religion, illuminating the ways that religion and religious devotion have persisted and changed since Mexican independence. Focusing on individual stories and vignettes and on local elements of religion, the contributors show that despite efforts to secularize society, religion continues to be a strong component of Mexican culture. Portraying the complexity of religiosity.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-259) and index.

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