Church and State in Bourbon Mexico [Paperback]

This book describes virtually all aspects of religious life in a Mexican diocese in the eighteenth century.In the eighteenth century the Mexican Church experienced spiritual renewal and intellectual reform. This is a rounded portrait of the Mexican Church at its meridian, touching upon virtually all aspects of religious life.In the eighteenth century the Mexican Church experienced spiritual renewal and intellectual reform. This is a rounded portrait of the Mexican Church at its meridian, touching upon virtually all aspects of religious life.This book describes virtually all aspects of religious life in a Mexican diocese in the eighteenth century. It covers the Franciscan missionary colleges, the new Oratory at San Miguel, new convents and sisterhoods, confraternities and popular religion, the composition and earnings of the secular clergy, conflicts in the cathedral chapter, and the involvement of the clergy in the 1810 Insurgency. A central issue is the conflicts between Church and state and between the culture of baroque Catholicism and enlightened despotism.Preface; Part I. The Religious Orders: 1. Jesuit expulsion; 2. Mendicant chronicles; 3. Oratorians; 4. Secularisation; 5. Nuns; Part II. Priests and Laity: 6. Priests; 7. Confraternities and parochial income; 8. Devotion and deviance; Part III. Bishops and Chapter: 9. Cathedral and chapter; 10. A bishop and his canons; 11. Tithes and chantries; 12. Liberal prelate; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index. The style of inquiry and the level of research established in Miners and Merchants are equally evident in Church and State, and as in his earlier works on Bourbon policies and practices, Brading approaches the rift between church and state in a multi-layered rather than linear fashion. Colonial Latin American Historical Review Church and State, in short, is an instructive work that illuminates a variety of aspects of the Church, religious life, and the Church-State relations in late Bourbon Michoacan. ...l#!