Victory on earth or in heaven : Mexico's Religionero rebellion / Brian A. Stauffer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stauffer, Brian A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--Mexico--Michoacán de Ocampo--History--19th century.

Catholic Church.

Government, Resistance to--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.

Government, Resistance to.

Government, Resistance to--Mexico--Michoacán de Ocampo--History--19th century.

Revolutions--Religious aspects--Catholic Church--Mexico--Michoacán de Ocampo.

Revolutions.

Revolutions--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.

Church and state--Catholic Church.

History.

Church and state.

Mexico--Michoacán de Ocampo.

Church and state--Mexico--Michoacán de Ocampo--History--19th century.

Church and state--Catholic Church--History--19th century.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 376 pages : illustrations, portraits, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2019]

Summary:

"This work reconstructs the history of Mexico's forgotten "Religionero" rebellion of 1873-1877, an armed Catholic challenge to the government of Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada. An essentially grassroots movement-organized by indigenous, Afro-Mexican, and mestizo parishioners in Mexico's central-western Catholic heartland-the Religionero rebellion erupted in response to a series of anticlerical measures raised to constitutional status by the Lerdo government. These "Laws of Reform" decreed the full independence of Church and state, secularized marriage and burial practices, prohibited acts of public worship, and severely curtailed the Church's ability to own and administer property. A comprehensive reconstruction of the revolt and a critical reappraisal of its significance, this book places ordinary Catholics at the center of the story of Mexico's fragmented nineteenth-century secularization and Catholic revival"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Death to the Protestants! long live religion!: The Religionero rebellion in Michoacán, 1873-1876

The other Reforma: clerical accommodation and Catholic Restoration in central-western Mexico

A Levitical city divided: religious culture and Religionero violence in northwestern Michoacán

Martyrs for Our Lord: Baroque Catholicism, Religionero mobilization, and the taming of the Reforma in Central Michoacán

"Spiritual orphans": Religioneros and the modernization of southwest Michoacán

Lerdismo derailed: the Religioneros, Porfirio Díaz, and the twilight of the Reforma in Michoacán, 1876-1878.

Notes:

Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Texas at Austin, 2015, titled Victory on earth or in heaven : religion, reform, and rebellion in Michoacán, Mexico, 1869-1877.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-365) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Stauffer, Brian A. Victory on earth or in heaven.

ISBN:

9780826361271

0826361277

OCLC:

1113294299