Victory on Earth or in Heaven: Mexico's Religionero Rebellion

by Brian A. Stauffer

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826361271
Publisher:	University of New Mexico Press
Publication date:	12/01/2019
Pages:	392
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Brian A. Stauffer is a translator and curator of the Spanish Collection in the Archives and Records Program at the Texas General Land Office.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction
Chapter One. Death to the Protestants! Long Live Religion!: The Religionero Rebellion in Michoacán, 1873-1876
Chapter Two. The Other Reforma: Clerical Accommodation and Catholic Restoration in Central-Western Mexico
Chapter Three. A Levitical City Divided: Religious Culture and Religionero Violence in Northwestern Michoacán
Chapter Four. Martyrs for Our Lord: Baroque Catholicism, Religionero Mobilization, and the Taming of the Reforma in Central Michoacán
Chapter Five. "Spiritual Orphans": Religioneros and the Modernization of Southwest Michoacán
Chapter Six. Lerdismo Derailed: The Religioneros, Porfirio Díaz, and the Twilight of the Reforma in Michoacán, 1876-1878
Conclusions

Appendix A. The Plan of Nuevo Urecho
Appendix B. The Manifesto of Tzitzio
Appendix C. Proclamation of Colonel Juan de Dios Rodríguez
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

This is a wonderful example of how talented historians can start with an incident or a speech or a crime—something apparently quite minor—and probe its context, investigate the circumstances that produced it, and build out from it to help the reader see this small event as something very important indeed.—Margaret Chowning, Church History

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