The Mexican Reformation
Subtitle: Catholic pluralism, enlightenment religion, and the Iglesia de Jesús movement in Benito Juárez's Mexico (1859-72)
By: Joel Morales Cruz
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Eugene, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9781610972017
Subjects: Protestants; History; Catholic Church; Church history
Description: This book reveals that the Catholic church in colonial New Mexico was far from monolithic, but exhibited a diversity of expressions and perspectives. In the mid-nineteenth century, one movement, eventually named Iglesia de Jesús, sought to reform the Catholic Church in line with the policies of Benito Juárez's government. This movement would lay the foundation for the formation of Protestant churches in Mexico. Its roots in the worldview of the baroque and in the challenges of the Catholic enlightenment provide an insight into the evolution of a distinctly Mexican Protestantism within its social and political contexts as well as a window into the process underlying the development of religious expressions in Latin America.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-212) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Matters of history; title: Church and state I : the royal patronage; title: The character of Mexican Catholicism in the colonial era; title: The Catholic enlightenment in New Spain; title: Church and state II : the national patronage (1824-50); title: The Iglesia de Jesús (1859-72); title: Conclusions.