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Abstract / Summary

The Cristero movement is an essential part of the Mexican Revolution. When in 1926 relations between church and state, old enemies and old partners, eventually broke down, when the Churches closed and the liturgy was suspended, Rome, Washington and Mexico, without ever losing their heads, embarked upon a long game of chess. These years were crucial, because they saw the setting up of the contemporary political system. The state established its omnipotence, supported by a bureaucratic apparatus and a strong privileged class. Just at the moment when the state thought that it was finally supreme, at the moment at which it decided to take control of the Church, the Cristero movement arose, a spontaneous mass movement, particularly of peasants, unique in its spread, its duration, and its popular character. For obvious reasons, the existing literature has both denied its reality and slandered it.

Field of Interest

Global Issues

Author

Jean A. Meyer, 1942-

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Copyright Message

Copyright © 1976 Cambridge University Press

Content Type

Book

Duration

0 sec

Warning: Contains explicit content

No

Format

Text

Original Publication Date

1976

Page Count

274

Publication Year

2008

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Place Published / Released

Cambridge, England

Series Number

24

Subject

Global Issues, Social Sciences, Individual and Groups Rights, Violence and Repression, Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920, Rebellions, Christianity, Cristero War, 1926-1929, History, Sociology, Direitos Individuais e de Grupo, Derechos del Individuo y de Grupos, Mexico, Mexicans, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)

Translator

Richard Southern, fl. 1976

Series / Program

Cambridge Latin American Studies

Keywords and Translated Subjects

Direitos Individuais e de Grupo, Derechos del Individuo y de Grupos