Lawyer of the Church : Bishop Clemente de Jesús Munguía and the Clerical Response to the Mexican Liberal Reforma.
Mexico's Reforma, the mid-nineteenth-century liberal revolution, decisively shaped the country by disestablishing the Catholic Church, secularizing public affairs, and laying the foundations of a truly national economy and culture. The Lawyer of the Church is an examination of the Mexican clerg...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
UNP - Nebraska,
2015.
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Colección: | Mexican experience.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Mexico's Reforma, the mid-nineteenth-century liberal revolution, decisively shaped the country by disestablishing the Catholic Church, secularizing public affairs, and laying the foundations of a truly national economy and culture. The Lawyer of the Church is an examination of the Mexican clergy's response to the Reforma through a study of the life and works of Bishop Clemente de Jesús Munguía (1810-68), one of the most influential yet least-known figures of the period. By analyzing how Munguía responded to changing political and intellectual scenarios in defense of the clergy's legal preroga. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (649 pages) |
ISBN: | 9780803276642 0803276648 |