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The End of Catholic Mexico: Causes and Consequences of the Mexican Reforma (1855-1861)

The End of Catholic Mexico: Causes and Consequences of the Mexican Reforma (1855-1861)

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Religion General Mexican History

ISBN10: 0826506445
ISBN13: 9780826506443
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: Apr 15 2024
Pages: 314
Weight: 1.39
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In The End of Catholic Mexico, historian David Gilbert provides a new interpretation of one of the defining events of Mexican history: the Reforma. During this period, Mexico was transformed from a Catholic confessional state into a modern secular nation, sparking a three-year civil war in the process. While past accounts have portrayed the Reforma as a political contest, ending with a liberal triumph over conservative elites, Gilbert argues that it was a much broader culture war centered on religion. This dynamic, he contends, explains why the resulting conflict was more violent and the outcome more extreme than other similar contests during the nineteenth century.

Gilbert's fresh account of this pivotal moment in Mexican history will be of interest to scholars of postindependence Mexico, Latin American religious history, nineteenth-century church history, and US historians of the antebellum republic.

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