Mexico's Spiritual Reconquest
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Mexico's Spiritual Reconquest

Indigenous Catholics and Father Pérez's Revolutionary Church

  1. 296 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF
Available until 31 Dec |Learn more

Mexico's Spiritual Reconquest

Indigenous Catholics and Father Pérez's Revolutionary Church

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. Chapter 1. Habemus Pérez, 1925
  9. Chapter 2. “Mexico’s Newest Revolution”: ICAM
  10. Chapter 3. The Other Cristiada: PĂ©rez’s Second Coming
  11. Chapter 4. “Our Beloved Peasants”: ICAM on the Ejido
  12. Chapter 5. “Acá todo es vida”: ICAM as Local Religion
  13. Chapter 6. Bronze Priests: Mexican Revolutionary Clergy
  14. Conclusion. Pérez is Dead, Viva Pérez
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index