Alone Before God : The Religious Origins of Modernity in Mexico /

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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
Main Author: Voekel, Pamela, 1963- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2002.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Catholic Church.
Église catholique > Histoire.
Catholic Church > Mexico > History.
Church and state > Catholic Church.
Church and state.
HISTORY > Latin America > Mexico.
RELIGION > Christianity > Catholic.
Sepulture > Aspect social > Mexique > Histoire.
Cimetieres > Aspect social > Mexique > Histoire.
Église et État > Église catholique > Histoire.
Burial > Social aspects > Mexico > History.
Cemeteries > Social aspects > Mexico > History.
Church and state > Catholic Church > History.
Church and state > Mexico > History.
Mexico.
Mexique > Histoire religieuse.
Mexico > Church history.
History.
Church history.
Electronic books.
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.

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