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Alone before God : the religious origins of modernity in Mexico /

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

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Voekel, Pamela, 1963- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2002.
Series:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The baroque backdrop
  • The reformation in Mexico City
  • Freeing the virtuous individual
  • The battle for church burials
  • Piety, power, and politics
  • The ideology articulated
  • The rise of medical empiricism
  • The heir apparent.