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Anticlericalism and Resistance: The Diocese of Huajuapam de León, 1930–1940

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2005

BENJAMIN THOMAS SMITH
BENJAMIN THOMAS SMITH
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge.
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Abstract

This article looks at the response to government anticlericalism in the diocese of Huajuapam de León, Oaxaca. In particular it examines how the dynamic relationship between bishop, priests and parishioners established during the early twentieth century produced a religious culture, which wove itself into the cultural, ethnic, political and economic identities of the indigenous Mixtecs. This religious culture proved key to resistance to post-revolutionary anticlericalism and socialist education in the 1930s and led to the failure of the state project.

Type
Research Article
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Journal of Latin American Studies , Volume 37 , Issue 3 , August 2005 , pp. 469 - 505
Copyright
2005 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

I would like to thank my PhD supervisor, Professor David Brading, who provided encouragement as well as his encyclopedic knowledge of church–state relations. I would also like to thank Professor Alan Knight and Dr Matthew Butler, who read early drafts of the article. Finally, I should acknowledge the help offered to me by colleagues, archivists, friends and family in Oaxaca, especially Dr Carlos Sánchez Silva, Efraín Morales Sánchez and Eloy David Morales Jiménez.