Faith and Impiety in Revolutionary Mexico

摘要

In the three ages into which the history writing of the Mexican Revolution is divided (the amateur, 1920-40; the statist, 1940-68; and the revisionist, dating from the late 1960s), aside from some notable exceptions, the religious conflict has been treated as a question of high-level Church and state relations. However, as the prominent revisionists Alan Knight and Jean Meyer pointed out, this failed to explain the heterogeneity of Catholic resistance. In order to understand this, they recommended focusing on three variables: the Church's grassroots organisation, local religiosity, and forms of revolutionary mobilisation in the different regions.