Of Wonders and Wise Men : : Religion and Popular Cultures in Southeast Mexico, 1800-1876 / / Terry Rugeley.
In the tumultuous decades following Mexico's independence from Spain, religion provided a unifying force among the Mexican people, who otherwise varied greatly in ethnicity and socioeconomic status. Accordingly, religion and the popular cultures surrounding it form the lens through which Terry...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2001 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Orthography
- Introduction. Strange Lights, Mysterious Crosses, and theWord of GodDenied
- Chapter 1. Geography, Misery, Agency, Remedy: The Unwritten Almanac of Folk Knowledge
- Chapter 2. Rural Curas and the Erosion of Mexican Conservatism: The Life of Raymundo Pérez
- Chapter 3. The Bourgeois Spiritual Path: A History of Urban Piety
- Chapter 4. Spiritual Power,Worldly Possession: A History of Imágenes
- Chapter 5. Official Cult and Peasant Protocol: Rural Cofradías and the History of San Antonio Xocneceh
- Chapter 6. A Culture of Conflict: Anticlericalism, Parish Problems, and Alternative Beliefs
- Chapter 7. ‘‘Burning the Torch of Revolution’’ Religion, Nationalism, and the Loss of the Petén
- Conclusion: The Motives for Miracle
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index