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Posits an underlying religious impetus for modernity in Mexico, claiming that the Catholic Church nursed a reform movement that ultimately affected many of the same changes as the Protestant Reformation.

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“This arresting study couples substance and style to transform what could have been a dry treatise on internecine clerical debates about dogma and inner spirituality into an intriguing and lively examination of the character of Mexican modernity sure to complicate our understandings of nineteenth-century liberal thought.”—Allen Wells, Bowdoin College

“Voekel's engaging history of the debates surrounding burials and cemetaries in late colonial Mexico provides a fresh perspective on the origins of nationalist sentiments in Latin America. Her creative reading of wills and other archival materals will inspire historians and anthropologists to think in new ways about the role of religion in early liberal thought.”—Deborah Poole, New School University

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Baroque Backdrop

2. The Reformation in Mexico City

3. Freeing the Virtuous Individual

4. The Battle for Church Burials

5. Piety, Power, and Politics

6. The Ideology Articulated

7. The Rise of Medical Empiricism

8. The Heir Apparent

Conclusion
Postscript
Appendix
Archives
Notes
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources

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      Publisher Duke University Press
      Published 30 August 2002
      ISBN-13 9780822329435
      978-0822329435
      ISBN-10 0822329433
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      Religion and politics

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Posits an underlying religious impetus for modernity in Mexico, claiming that the Catholic Church nursed a reform movement that ultimately affected many of the same changes as the Protestant Reformation.

      Trade Review
      “This arresting study couples substance and style to transform what could have been a dry treatise on internecine clerical debates about dogma and inner spirituality into an intriguing and lively examination of the character of Mexican modernity sure to complicate our understandings of nineteenth-century liberal thought.”—Allen Wells, Bowdoin College

      “Voekel's engaging history of the debates surrounding burials and cemetaries in late colonial Mexico provides a fresh perspective on the origins of nationalist sentiments in Latin America. Her creative reading of wills and other archival materals will inspire historians and anthropologists to think in new ways about the role of religion in early liberal thought.”—Deborah Poole, New School University

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments
      Introduction
      1. The Baroque Backdrop

      2. The Reformation in Mexico City

      3. Freeing the Virtuous Individual

      4. The Battle for Church Burials

      5. Piety, Power, and Politics

      6. The Ideology Articulated

      7. The Rise of Medical Empiricism

      8. The Heir Apparent

      Conclusion
      Postscript
      Appendix
      Archives
      Notes
      Primary Sources
      Secondary Sources

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