The ambivalence of the sacred : an introduction -- Religion and society in social Catholicism -- Christian democracy in Mexico -- The limits of Catholic Party rule in Jalisco -- The battles for Jalisco -- Local politics and the Mexican Revolution in Jalisco -- Work and religion in post-revolutionary Mexico -- José Guadalupe Zuno and the collapse of public space -- Anacleto González Flores and the martyrs' plebiscite -- Politics and religion in the Mexican revolution.
Summary
This book shows the centrality of religion to the making of the 1910 Mexican revolution. It goes beyond conventional studies of church-state conflict to focus on Catholics as political subjects whose religious identity became a fundamental aspect of citizenship during the first three decades of the twentieth century.
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