Religious Culture In Modern Mexico
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Religious Culture In Modern Mexico
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Author : Martin Austin Nesvig
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2007
Religious Culture In Modern Mexico written by Martin Austin Nesvig and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
This nuanced book considers the role of religion and religiosity in modern Mexico, breaking new ground with an emphasis on popular religion and its relationship to politics. The contributors highlight the multifaceted role of religion, illuminating the ways that religion and religious devotion have persisted and changed since Mexican independence. Focusing on individual stories and vignettes and on local elements of religion, the contributors show that despite efforts to secularize society, religion continues to be a strong component of Mexican culture. Portraying the complexity of religiosity in Mexico in the context of an increasingly secular state, this book will be invaluable for all those interested in Latin American history and religion.
Mexican American Religions
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Author : Gastón Espinosa
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2008-07-08
Mexican American Religions written by Gastón Espinosa and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07-08 with Religion categories.
A multidisciplinary collection of essays examining the influence of Mexican American religion on Mexican American literature, art, politics, and popular culture.
Local Religion In Colonial Mexico
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Author : Martin Austin Nesvig
language : en
Publisher: UNM Press
Release Date : 2006
Local Religion In Colonial Mexico written by Martin Austin Nesvig and has been published by UNM Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Christianity and culture categories.
The ten essays in Local Religion in Colonial Mexico provide information about the religious culture in colonial Mexico.
Culture And Customs Of Mexico
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Author : Peter Standish
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2004-04-30
Culture And Customs Of Mexico written by Peter Standish and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-04-30 with Social Science categories.
Mexico, with some 90 million people, holds a special place in Latin America. It is a large, complex hybrid, a bridge between North and South America, between the ancient and the modern, and between the developed and the developing worlds. Mexico's importance to the United States cannot be overstated. The two countries share historical, economic, and cultural bonds that continue to evolve. This book offers students and general readers a deeper understanding of Mexico's dynamism: its wealth of history, institutions, religion, cultural output, leisure, and social customs.
Imperialism And The Origins Of Mexican Culture
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Author : Colin M. MacLachlan
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2015-04-13
Imperialism And The Origins Of Mexican Culture written by Colin M. MacLachlan and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-13 with History categories.
Their empire unmatched in military and cultural might, the Aztecs were poised on the brink of a golden age, when the arrival of the Spanish changed everything. Colin MacLachlan explains why Mexico is culturally Mestizo while ethnically Indian and why Mexicans remain orphaned from their indigenous heritage—the adopted children of European history.
Mary Michael And Lucifer
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Author : John M. Ingham
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2010-07-22
Mary Michael And Lucifer written by John M. Ingham and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-22 with Social Science categories.
The physical signs of Roman Catholicism pervade the Mexican countryside. Colonial churches and neighborhood chapels, wayside shrines, and mountaintop crosses dot the landscape. Catholicism also permeates the traditional cultures of rural communities, although this ideational influence is less immediately obvious. It is often couched in enigmatic idiom and imagery, and it is further obscured by the vestiges of pagan customs and the anticlerical attitudes of many villagers. These heterodox tendencies have even led some observers to conclude that Catholicism in rural Mexico is little more than a thin veneer on indigenous practice. In Mary, Michael, and Lucifer John M. Ingham attempts to develop a modern semiotic and structuralist interpretation of traditional Mexican culture, an interpretation that accounts for the culture's apparent heterodoxy. Drawing on field research in Tlayacapan, Morelos, a village in the central highlands, he shows that nearly every domain of folk culture is informed with religious meaning. More precisely, the Catholic categories of spirit, nature, and evil compose the basic framework of the villagers' social relations and subjective experiences.
Mexican Spirituality
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Author : Francisco Schulte
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2002
Mexican Spirituality written by Francisco Schulte and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Religion categories.
This book celebrates a number of Guadalupan sermons that serve as the fundamental source of the Mexican people's unique spiritual devotion and identity. These sermons were preached, published, and circulated among the populace of Mexico in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. They proclaim an unshakable conviction that the peoples of the American continent are the uniquely blessed recipients of God's, and especially Mary's, favor. In their modern sense, these sermons provide a wealth of information on Mexican theology, spirituality, and religious self-understanding at a pivotal time in a people's culture.
Mormons In Mexico
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Author : F. LaMond Tullis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
Mormons In Mexico written by F. LaMond Tullis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Christian sociology categories.
Alone Before God
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Author : Pamela Voekel
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2002-08-30
Alone Before God written by Pamela Voekel and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-08-30 with History categories.
Focusing on cemetery burials in late-eighteenth-century Mexico, Alone Before God provides a window onto the contested origins of modernity in Mexico. By investigating the religious and political debates surrounding the initiative to transfer the burials of prominent citizens from urban to suburban cemeteries, Pamela Voekel challenges the characterization of Catholicism in Mexico as an intractable and monolithic institution that had to be forcibly dragged into the modern world. Drawing on the archival research of wills, public documents, and other texts from late-colonial and early-republican Mexico, Voekel describes the marked scaling-down of the pomp and display that had characterized baroque Catholic burials and the various devices through which citizens sought to safeguard their souls in the afterlife. In lieu of these baroque practices, the new enlightened Catholics, claims Voekel, expressed a spiritually and hygienically motivated preference for extremely simple burial ceremonies, for burial outside the confines of the church building, and for leaving their earthly goods to charity. Claiming that these changes mirrored a larger shift from an external, corporate Catholicism to a more interior piety, she demonstrates how this new form of Catholicism helped to initiate a cultural and epistemic shift that placed the individual at the center of knowledge. Breaking with the traditional historiography to argue that Mexican liberalism had deeply religious roots, Alone Before God will be of interest to specialists in Latin American history, modernity, and religion.
Of Wonders And Wise Men
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Author : Terry Rugeley
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2001-04-15
Of Wonders And Wise Men written by Terry Rugeley and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-04-15 with Social Science categories.
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 Rugeley focuses this cultural history of southeast Mexico from independence (1821) to the rise of the dictator Porfirio Díaz in 1876. Drawing on a wealth of previously unused archival material, Rugeley vividly reconstructs the folklore, beliefs, attitudes, and cultural practices of the Maya and Hispanic peoples of the Yucatán. In engagingly written chapters, he explores folklore and folk wisdom, urban piety, iconography, and anticlericalism. Interspersed among the chapters are detailed portraits of individual people, places, and institutions, that, with the archival evidence, offer a full and fascinating history of the outlooks, entertainments, and daily lives of the inhabitants of southeast Mexico in the nineteenth century. Rugeley also links this rich local history with larger events to show how macro changes in Mexico affected ordinary people.