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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Butler, Matthew (Matthew John Blakemore). Popular piety and political identity in Mexico's Cristero Rebellion. Oxford ; New York : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, ©2004 (OCoLC)988941890 |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Matthew Butler; British Academy. |
ISBN: | 0197262988 9780197262986 |
OCLC Number: | 224062658 |
Description: | xx, 251 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Introduction : religion in the Cristero revolt -- 1. East Michoacan from the conquest to the revolution -- 2. Sowing new seeds, ploughing old furrows : agrarismo, 1915-29 -- 3. Meeting the missionaries : rural education, 1920-9 -- 4. Peter, Mary, and Jack : parish life, 1920-5 -- 5. Into the catacombs : crisis and persecution, 1926-9 -- 6. cristero rebellion, 1926-9 -- App. Agrarismo in East Michoacan, 1915-29. |
Series Title: | British Academy postdoctoral fellowship monograph. |
Responsibility: | by Matthew Butler. |
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Butler's well-crafted, elegantly written, and accessible study combines skilful analysis of a wide-range of archival sources ... Popular Piety and Political Identity will undoubtedly serve as a model for historians of the revolution seeking to incorporate religion into their analysis of Mexico's maddeningly complex regional history. * Adrian A. Bantjes, English Historical Review * The author spins a nimble narrative unencumbered by jargon and enlivened by a few marvelous photographs ... it is the best (if regionally specific) social history we have of the Mexican Catholic Church to date. * Ben Fallaw, The Historian * Butler's study is researched thoroughly and written engagingly, successfully proving that in many communities popular 'religion was a - sometimes the determinant' (p.214) in the process of defining community and national identity * Journal of Ecclesiastical History * Read more...


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- Cristero Rebellion, 1926-1929.
- Peasants -- Religious life -- Mexico -- Michoacán de Ocampo.
- Peasants -- Political activity -- Mexico -- Michoacán de Ocampo.
- Michoacán de Ocampo (Mexico) -- Religious life and customs.
- Michoacán de Ocampo (Mexico) -- Politics and government.
- Peasants -- Political activity.
- Peasants -- Religious life.
- Politics and government.
- Mexico -- Michoacán de Ocampo.
- Guerra Cristera
- Volksglaube
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