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Alone Before God : The Religious Origins of Modernity in Mexico /
Focusing on cemetery burials in late-eighteenth-century Mexico, Alone Before God provides a window onto the contested origins of modernity in Mexico. By investigating the religious and political debates surrounding the initiative to transfer the burials of prominent citizens from urban to suburban c...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
[2002]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- 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