Description
Book SynopsisBrings to life a classically misunderstood
picaro: liberal soldier turned Catholic priest and revolutionary antipope, ‘Patriarch’ Joaquin Perez. Historian Matthew Butler weaves Perez’s controversial life story into a larger narrative about the relationship between religion, the state, and indigeneity in twentieth-century Mexico.
Trade ReviewIn this first-ever study in English of the pro-revolutionary Mexican Catholic and Apostolic Church and the patriarch who led it, Matthew Butler offers readers a fascinating reconceptualization of popular, indigenous, and revolutionary religiosity in Mexico during the first half of the twentieth century. In his tremendously rich and detailed book, Butler reveals that Mexico was not simply a Catholic country but was instead a country of 'competing Catholicisms.'"--Julia G. Young, author of
Mexican Exodus: Emigrants, Exiles, and Refugees of the Cristero War"
Mexico's Spiritual Reconquest radically reshapes our understanding of this long-ignored (or actively misrepresented) independent Catholic church."--Ben Fallaw, author of
Religion and State Formation in Postrevolutionary MexicoTable of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter One. Habemus Pérez, 1925
- Chapter Two. "Mexico's Newest Revolution": ICAM
- Chapter Three. The Other Cristiada: Pérez's Second Coming
- Chapter Four. "Our Beloved Peasants": ICAM on the Ejido
- Chapter Five. "Acá todo es vida": ICAM as Local Religion
- Chapter Six. Bronze Priests: Mexican Revolutionary Clergy
- Conclusion. Pérez Is Dead, Viva Pérez
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- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
