Joel Morales Cruz

The Mexican Reformation (eBook, ePUB)

Catholic Pluralism, Enlightenment Religion, and the Iglesia de Jesus Movement in Benito Juarez's Mexico (1859-72)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Common wisdom holds that Latin America is a uniformly Roman Catholic continent and Protestant churches only entered as a result of British or U.S. expansionism following the Spanish-American independence movements. Closer inspection, however, reveals a far different and more exciting reality. As The Mexican Reformation reveals, the Catholic Church in the colonial era was far from monolithic, exhibiting a diversity of expressions and perspectives that interacted with and were sometimes at odds with one another. In the mid-nineteenth century, one such group sought to reform the Catholic Church in line with some of the policies set forth by the government of Benito Juarez. This movement, eventually known as the Iglesia de Jesus, would lay the foundation for the emergence 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 processes underlying the development of religious expressions in Latin America.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781630877125
• Artikelnr.: 55266699

Autorenporträt

Joel Morales Cruz is an instructor for the Evangelical Seminary of Puerto Rico. He lives in Chicago.