Faith and Impiety in Revolutionary Mexico [Hardcover]

While Mexico's spiritual history after the 1910 Revolution is often essentialized as a church-state power struggle, this book reveals the complexity of interactions between revolution and religion. Looking at anticlericalism, indigenous cults and Catholic pilgrimage, these authors reveal that the Revolution was a period of genuine religious change, as well as social upheaval.Introduction: A Revolution in Spirit? Mexico, 1910-40 - Matthew Butler * PART I: REVOLUTIONARY RELIGIONS? * The Mentality and Modus Operandi of Revolutionary Anticlericalism - Alan Knight * The Regional Dynamics of Anticlericalism and Defanaticization in Revolutionary Mexico - Adrian A. Bantjes * Protestants, Freemasons, and Spiritists: Non-Catholic Religious Sociabilities and Mexico's Revolutionary Movement, 1910-20 - Jean-Pierre Bastian * Ethereal Allies: Spiritism and the Revolutionary Struggle in Hidalgo - Keith?Brewster?&?Claire Brewster * Anti-Priests versus Catholic-Socialists in 1930s Campeche: Federal Teachers, Revolutionary Communes, and Anticlericalism - Ben Fallaw * Revolutionary and Not-So-Revolutionary Negotiations in Catholic Annulment, Bigamy, and Divorce Trials: The Archdiocese of Mexico, 1929-40 - Kristina A. Boylan * PART II: CATHOLICISM REVOLUTIONIZED? * Mexico's Ritual Constant : Religion and Liberty from Colony to Post-Revolution - Fernando Cervantes * The First Encounter : Catholic Politics in Revolutionary Jalisco, 1917-19 - Robert Curley * Trouble Afoot?: Pilgrimage in Cristero Mexico City - Matthew Butler * El Indio Gabriel : New Religious Perspectives among the Indigenous in Garrido Canabal's Tabasco (1927-30) - Massimo De Giuseppe * Religious Conflict and Catholic Resistance in 1930s Oaxaca - Jean Meyer * A Revolution in Local Catholicism?: Oaxaca, 1928-34 - Edward Wright-Rios * The Priest's Party : Local Catholicism and Panismo in Huajuapam de Le?n - Benjamin Smith

Together, these thirteen essays and Matthew Butler's introduction make an outstandinl#¢