Primitive revolution : restorationist religion and the idea of the Mexican Revolution, 1940-1968 / Jason Dormady.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dormady, Jason, 1975-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Unión Nacional Sinarquista (Mexico).

Luz del Mundo (Organization).

Church and state--Mexico--History--20th century.

Church and state.

Primitivism.

History.

Primitivism--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Mexico.

Mexico--Church history--20th century.

Church history.

Luz del Mundo (Organization)--History--20th century.

Iglesia del Reino de Dios en su Plenitud--History--20th century.

Iglesia del Reino de Dios en su Plenitud.

Unión Nacional Sinarquista (Mexico)--History--20th century.

Primitivism--Religious aspects--Christianity--History--20th century.

Primitivism--Mexico--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

x, 206 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2011.

Summary:

Understanding the lives of poor people who leave few written records is a challenge for historians. This book looks at conversions to restorationist, or primitive, intentional religious communities and expulsion from those communities as ways to read the lives of poor and working-class Mexicans in the mid-twentieth century. Dormady studies a Mormon-based polygamist organization that combined political and Christian principles to establish its own religious community in rural Mexico, an evangelical Protestant organization headquartered in Guadalajara, and a semifascist Catholic group that had as many has 500,000 members across Mexico by 1941. These attempts at authenticity, Dormady argues, mirrored the efforts of the state to define what it meant to be Mexican. The choice of a particular religious denomination was a way for some Mexicans to express their opinion of the1 condition of the state. Book jacket.

Contents:

La Luz del Mundo and Hermosa Provincia

The fullness of the kingdom of God and the New Jerusalem

Sinarquismo and the María Auxiliadora colonization experiment

Community, law, and religion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780826349514

082634951X

OCLC:

657223870