Popular Piety and Political Identity in Mexico's Cristero Rebellion

Popular Piety and Political Identity in Mexico's Cristero Rebellion
Author: Matthew John Blakemore Butler
Publisher:
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2004
Genre: Cristero Rebellion, 1926-1929
ISBN: 9780191734656


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The author provides a new interpretation of the Cristero War (1926-29) which divided Mexico's peasantry into rival camps loyal to the Catholic Church (cristero) or the Revolution (agrarista). This book puts religion at the heart of our understanding of the revolt.