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

Gilbert, David Allen

Vanderbilt University Press（2024/04発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 314 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780826506443
• DDC分類 972.06

Full Description

In The End of Catholic Mexico: Causes and Consequences of the Mexican Reforma (1855-1861), historian David A. Gilbert provides a new interpretation of one of the defining events of Mexican history: the Reforma. During this period, Mexico transformed from a Catholic confessional state to a modern secular nation, sparking a three-year civil war in the process. While past accounts of the Reforma have foregrounded its class dimensions and portrayed it as a liberal triumph over conservative elites, Gilbert instead argues that the Reforma was a religious war fueled two competing interpretations of the Catholic faith. These competing interpretations, Gilbert contends, generated sharp disagreements about Mexico's future, which further polarized the country and led to a culture war centered on religion.

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

Contents

Introduction: The Reforma as Culture War
Chapter 1. The Road to the Reforma
Chapter 2. The Radicalization of the 1854 Revolution
Chapter 3. La Cruz and the Formation of a Catholic Reaction
Chapter 4. Resistance and Retribution (1856)
Chapter 5. Debating the Religious Future of the Nation
Chapter 6. The Constitutional Crisis of 1857
Chapter 7. The War of the Reforma (1858-1860)
Chapter 8. The End of Catholic Mexico
Bibliography
Notes
Index