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Alone before God : the religious origins of modernity in Mexico / Pamela Voekel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Voekel, Pamela, 1963-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Catholic Church--Mexico--History.
- Catholic Church.
- Church and state--Mexico--History.
- Church and state.
- Church and state--Catholic Church--History.
- Cemeteries--Social aspects--Mexico--History.
- Cemeteries.
- Burial--Social aspects--Mexico--History.
- Burial.
- Mexico--Church history.
- Mexico.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (345 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Posits an underlying religious impetus for modernity in Mexico, claiming that the Catholic Church nursed a reform movement that ultimately effected many of the same changes as the Protestant Reformation.
- Contents:
- The baroque backdrop
- The reformation in Mexico City
- Freeing the virtuous individual
- The battle for church burials
- Piety, power, and politics
- The ideology articulated
- The rise of medical empiricism
- The heir apparent.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-332) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612920547
- 9781282920545
- 1282920545
- 9780822384298
- 0822384299
- OCLC:
- 850215624
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