Mexico's Spiritual Reconquest: Indigenous Catholics and Father Pérez's Revolutionary Church

Mexico’s Spiritual Reconquest brings to life a classically misunderstood pícaro: liberal soldier turned Catholic priest and revolutionary antipope, “Patriarch” Joaquín Pérez. Historian Matthew Butler weaves Pérez’s controversial life story into a larger narrative about the relationship between religion, the state, and indigeneity in twentieth-century Mexico.

Mexico’s Spiritual Reconquest is at once the history of an indigenous reformation and a deeply researched, beautifully written explorat...