A FLOCK DIVIDED "RACE, RELIGION, AND POLITICS IN MEXICO, 1749-1857"

O'HARA, MATTHEW D.

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ISBN:978-0-8223-4639-5
EAN:9780822346395
Editorial: DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Fecha de la edición:2010
Número de la edición: 1
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Encuadernación:RUSTICA
Nº Pág.:318
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/ ARTE Y CIENCIAS SOCIALES / HISTORIA / HISTORIA Y CULTURA DE HISPANOAMERICA

Catholicism, as it developed in colonial Mexico, helped to create a broad and remarkably inclusive community of Christian subjects, while it also divided that community into countless smaller flocks. Taking this contradiction as a starting point, Matthew D. O'Hara describes how religious thought and practice shaped Mexico's popular politics. As he shows, religion faciliated the emergence of new categories and modes of belonging in which individuals-initially subjects of the Spanish crown, but later citizens and other residents of republican Mexico-found both significant opportunities for improving their place in society and major constraints on their ways of thinking and behaving.