The Mexican Reformation : Catholic pluralism, enlightenment religion, and the Iglesia de Jesús movement in Benito Juarez's Mexico (1859-72) / Joel Morales Cruz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cruz, Joel Morales.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--Mexico--History.

Catholic Church.

Protestants--Mexico.

Protestants.

History.

Mexico--Church history.

Mexico.

Church history.

Latin America--Church history.

Latin America.

Physical Description:

xi, 223 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Eugene, Or. : Pickwick Publications, [2011]

Summary:

This book reveals that the Catholic church in colonial New Mexico was far from monolithic, but exhibited a diversity of expressions and perspectives. In the mid-nineteenth century, one movement, eventually named Iglesia de Jesús, sought to reform the Catholic Church in line with the policies of Benito Juárez's government. This movement would lay the foundation for the formation of Protestant churches in Mexico. Its roots in the worldview of the baroque and in the challenges of the Catholic enlightenment provide an insight into the evolution of a distinctly Mexican Protestantism within its social and political contexts as well as a window into the process underlying the development of religious expressions in Latin America.

Contents:

Introduction

Matters of history

Church and state I : the royal patronage

The character of Mexican Catholicism in the colonial era

The Catholic enlightenment in New Spain

Church and state II : the national patronage (1824-50)

The Iglesia de Jesús (1859-72)

Conclusions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-212) and index.

ISBN:

1610972015

9781610972017

OCLC:

733230318

Publisher Number:

99945576591