Historia De La Iglesia En Mexico

Historia de la Iglesia en México

La participación de los cristianos en el proceso popular de liberación en México (1968-1983)

Analiza a la Iglesia mexicana desde una perspectiva tanto sociológica como teológica, y estudia la Iglesia institucional tanto en sus niveles jerárquicos como de base durante el período más reciente de su historia. Se dedica una parte especial al Movimiento Nacional de Comunidades Eclesiales de Base, organización de cristianos cada vez más comprometida con la realidad del país; asimismo se incluye el trabajo íDisidencia religiosa protestante e imperialismo en Méxicoî, punto de vista necesario para el análisis de la Iglesia católica.

The Roots of Conservatism in Mexico

The Roots of Conservatism is the first attempt to ask why over the past two centuries so many Mexican peasants have opted to ally with conservative groups rather than their radical counterparts. Blending socioeconomic history, cultural analysis, and political narrative, Smith’s study begins with the late Bourbon period and moves through the early republic, the mid-nineteenth-century Reforma, the Porfiriato, and the Revolution, when the Mixtecs rejected Zapatista offers of land distribution, ending with the armed religious uprising known as the “last Cristiada,” a desperate Cold War bid to rid the region of impious “communist” governance. In recounting this long tradition of regional conservatism, Smith emphasizes the influence of religious belief, church ritual, and lay-clerical relations both on social relations and on political affiliation. He posits that many Mexican peasants embraced provincial conservatism, a variant of elite or metropolitan conservatism, which not only comprised ideas on property, hierarchy, and the state, but also the overwhelming import of the church to maintaining this system.