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1 online resource (291 pages). |
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Jaguar Books on Latin America
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Jaguar books on Latin America.
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| Contents |
Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction Martin Austin Nesvig; 2. Miserables and Citizens: Indians, Legal Pluralism, and Religious Practice in Early Republican Mexico Matthew D. O'Har; 3. ""Para formar el corazón religioso de los jovenes"": Processes of Change in Collective Religiosity in Nineteenth-Century Oaxaca Daniela Traffano; 4. Mexican Laywomen Spearhead a Catholic Revival:The Ladies of Charity, 1863-1910 Silvia Marina Arrom; 5. Liberal Religion: The Schism of 1861 Pamela Vaekel. |
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6. Priests and Caudillos in the Novel of the Mexican Nation Alejandro Cortazar7. ""A New Political Religious Order"": Church, State, and Workers in Porfirian Mexico Mark Overmyer-Velázquez; 8. Rights, Rule, and Religion: Old Colony Mennonites and Mexico's Transition to the Free Market, 1920-2000 Jason Dormady; 9. Visions of Women: Revelation, Gender, and Catholic Resurgence Edward Wright-Rios; 10. Juan Soldado: The Popular Canonization of a Confessed Rapist-MurdererPaul J. vanderwood; 11. Religion and the Mexican Revolution: Toward a New Historiography Adrian Bantjes. |
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Suggested Further ReadingIndex; About the Contributors. |
| 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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-259) and index. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Mexico -- Religious life and customs.
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Mexico. |
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Electronic books.
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Arrom, Silvia Marina.
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Bantjes, Adrian.
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Cortazar, Alejandro.
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Dormady, Jason.
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O'Hara, Matthew D.
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Traffano, Daniela.
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Vanderwood, Paul J.
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Overmyer-Velázquez, Mark.
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Voekel, Pamela.
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Wright-Rios, Edward.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Nesvig, Martin Austin. Religious Culture in Modern Mexico. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2007 9780742537460 |
| ISBN |
9781461643029 |
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1461643023 |
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0742537463 |
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0742537471 |
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9780742537460 |
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9780742537477 |
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