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1 online resource |
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The Mexican experience |
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Mexican experience.
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Born with the revolution: from los reyes to the lettered city -- Tempering passions: everyday life and curricular formation at the Morelia Seminary -- The grammar of civilization: language, rhetoric, and the shaping of public opinion -- The ways of legitimacy: constitutionalism and church-state relations in el derecho natural -- The defiant bishop: the Catholic Church confronts the liberal reforma -- Distant allies: conservatism and the twilight of the Catholic state |
| Summary |
Mexico's Reforma, the mid-nineteenth-century liberal revolution, decisively shaped the country by disestablishing the Catholic Church, secularizing public affairs, and laying the foundations of a truly national economy and culture. The Lawyer of the Church is an examination of the Mexican clergy's response to the Reforma through a study of the life and works of Bishop Clemente de Jesús Munguía (1810-68), one of the most influential yet least-known figures of the period. By analyzing how Munguía responded to changing political and intellectual scenarios in defense of the clergy's legal preroga |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Munguía, Clemente de Jesús, 1810-1868
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Munguía, Clemente de Jesús, 1810-1868
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Munguía, Clemente de Jesús, 1810-1868 fast |
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Catholic Church -- Mexico -- History -- 19th century
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Catholic Church -- History -- 19th century.
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Catholic Church fast |
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Church and state -- Mexico -- History -- 19th century
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- Catholic.
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Church and state
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Politics and government
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Mexico -- Politics and government -- 1821-1861. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85084609
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Mexico
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780803276666 |
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0803276664 |
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0803276648 |
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9780803276642 |
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