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Title: POPULAR PIETY AND POLITICAL IDENTITY IN MEXICO'S CRISTERO REBELLION
MICHOACAN, 1927-29
By: Matthew Butler
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 0197262988
ISBN 13: 9780197262986
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Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 17 June, 2004
Series: British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs
Pages: 274
Description: Dr Butler provides a new interpretation of the cristero war (1926-29) which divided Mexico's peasantry into rival camps loyal to the Catholic Church (cristero) or the Revolution (agrarista). Focusing on the state of Michoacan in western-central Mexico, the book shows how matters of faith were as crucial to peasants on both sides as political factors. Based on oral testimonies and evidence from many ecclesiastical and state archives, this study makes an importantcontribution to the religious history of the Mexican Revolution.
Synopsis: Dr Butler provides a new interpretation of the cristero war (1926-29) which divided Mexico's peasantry into rival camps loyal to the Catholic Church (cristero) or the Revolution (agrarista). This book puts religion at the heart of our understanding of the revolt by showing how peasant allegiances often resulted from genuinely popular cultural and religious antagonisms. It challenges the assumption that Mexican peasants in the 1920s shared religious outlooks and that their behaviour was mainly driven by political and material factors. Focusing on the state of Michoacan in western-central Mexico, the volume seeks to integrate both cultural and structural lines of inquiry. First charting the uneven character of Michoacan's historical formation in the late colonial period and the nineteenth century, Dr Butler shows how the emergence of distinct agrarian regimes and political cultures was later associated with varying popular responses to post-revolutionary state formation in the areas of educa
Illustrations: 12 halftones; 1 map and 2 tables
Publication: UK
Imprint: Oxford University Press
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