04039nam 2200625Ia 450 991078346260332120230607220444.00-292-79817-210.7560/771062(CKB)1000000000210018(OCoLC)560580582(CaPaEBR)ebrary10245758(SSID)ssj0000213630(PQKBManifestationID)11175068(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000213630(PQKBWorkID)10151480(PQKB)10838168(MiAaPQ)EBC3443276(OCoLC)55898608(MdBmJHUP)muse1979(Au-PeEL)EBL3443276(CaPaEBR)ebr10245758(DE-B1597)586886(DE-B1597)9780292798175(EXLCZ)99100000000021001820000315d2001 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrOf wonders and wise men[electronic resource] religion and popular cultures in southeast Mexico, 1800-1876 /by Terry Rugeley1st ed.Austin University of Texas Press20011 online resource (366 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-292-77106-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-328) and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Orthography -- Introduction. Strange Lights, Mysterious Crosses, and theWord of GodDenied -- Chapter 1. Geography, Misery, Agency, Remedy: The Unwritten Almanac of Folk Knowledge -- Chapter 2. Rural Curas and the Erosion of Mexican Conservatism: The Life of Raymundo Pérez -- Chapter 3. The Bourgeois Spiritual Path: A History of Urban Piety -- Chapter 4. Spiritual Power,Worldly Possession: A History of Imágenes -- Chapter 5. Official Cult and Peasant Protocol: Rural Cofradías and the History of San Antonio Xocneceh -- Chapter 6. A Culture of Conflict: Anticlericalism, Parish Problems, and Alternative Beliefs -- Chapter 7. ‘‘Burning the Torch of Revolution’’ Religion, Nationalism, and the Loss of the Petén -- Conclusion: The Motives for Miracle -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- IndexIn the tumultuous decades following Mexico's independence from Spain, religion provided a unifying force among the Mexican people, who otherwise varied greatly in ethnicity and socioeconomic status. Accordingly, religion and the popular cultures surrounding it form the lens through which Terry Rugeley focuses this cultural history of southeast Mexico from independence (1821) to the rise of the dictator Porfirio Díaz in 1876. Drawing on a wealth of previously unused archival material, Rugeley vividly reconstructs the folklore, beliefs, attitudes, and cultural practices of the Maya and Hispanic peoples of the Yucatán. In engagingly written chapters, he explores folklore and folk wisdom, urban piety, iconography, and anticlericalism. Interspersed among the chapters are detailed portraits of individual people, places, and institutions, that, with the archival evidence, offer a full and fascinating history of the outlooks, entertainments, and daily lives of the inhabitants of southeast Mexico in the nineteenth century. Rugeley also links this rich local history with larger events to show how macro changes in Mexico affected ordinary people.Popular cultureMexico, Southeast19th centuryMexico, SoutheastChurch history19th centuryMexico, SoutheastCivilization19th centuryMexico, SoutheastReligion19th centuryMexico, SoutheastReligious life and customsPopular culture277.2/6081Rugeley Terry1956-1475018MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910783462603321Of wonders and wise men3689002UNINA