The baroque backdrop -- The reformation in Mexico City -- Freeing the virtuous individual -- The battle for church burials -- Piety, power, and politics -- The ideology articulated -- The rise of medical empiricism -- The heir apparent
Summary
Posits an underlying religious impetus for modernity in Mexico, claiming that the Catholic Church nursed a reform movement that ultimately effected many of the same changes as the Protestant Reformation
Analysis
México Historia religiosa
Iglesia y Estado México Historia
Iglesia católica México Historia
Iglesia y Estado Iglesia católica Historia
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-332) and index
