Mexico`s Spiritual Reconquest – Indigenous Catholics and Father Pérez`s Revolut…

Mexico's Spiritual ReconquestIndigenous Catholics and Father Prez's Revolutionary Church\nAuthor(s): Matthew Butler\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of New Mexico Press, United States\nImprint: University of New Mexico Press\nISBN-13: 9780826345073, 978-0826345073\nSynopsis\nMexico's Spiritual Reconquest brings to life a classically misunderstood pcaro: liberal soldier turned Catholic priest and revolutionary antipope, \""Patriarch\"" Joaqun Prez. Historian Matthew Butler weaves Prez's controversial life story into a larger narrative about the relationship between religion, the state, and indigeneity in twentieth-century Mexico.\n\nMexico's Spiritual Reconquest is at once the history of an indigenous reformation and a deeply researched, beautifully written exploration of what can happen when revolutions try to assimilate powerful religious institutions and groups. The book challenges historians to reshape baseline assumptions about modern Mexico in order to see a revolutionary.