Alone Before God - The Religious Origins of Modernity in Mexico

"Voekel's engaging history of the debates surrounding burials and cemetaries in late colonial Mexico provides a fresh perspective on the origins of nationalist sentiments in Latin America. Her creative reading of wills and other archival materals will inspire historians and anthropologists to think in new ways about the role of religion in early liberal thought."--Deborah Poole, New School University

List of contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Baroque Backdrop
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2. The Reformation in Mexico City
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3. Freeing the Virtuous Individual
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4. The Battle for Church Burials
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5. Piety, Power, and Politics
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6. The Ideology Articulated
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7. The Rise of Medical Empiricism
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8. The Heir Apparent
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Conclusion

Postscript

Appendix

Archives

Notes

Primary Sources

Secondary Sources

About the author

Pamela Voekel

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Voekel, Pamela Voekel
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.08.2002
• EAN: 9780822329275
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2927-5
• No. of pages: 344
• Weight: 816 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Amerikanische Geschichte, Geschichte der Religion, Süd- und Zentralamerika (inklusive Mexiko), Lateinamerika, RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State, RELIGION / Christianity / History, History - General History, HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico