Margaret Chowning
Biographic Data
| ID | 540843 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margaret Chowning |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margaret |
| FAMILY NAME | Chowning |
| SIGNATURE | CHOWNING M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Catholic Women and Mexican Politics, 1750-1940
What accounts for the enduring power of the Catholic Church, which withstood widespread and sustained anticlerical opposition in Mexico? This book locates an answer in the untold story of how the Mexican Catholic church in the nineteenth century excluded, then accepted, and then came to depend on women as leaders in church organizations. But much more than a study of women and the church or the feminization of piety, the book links new female lay…
Catholic Women and Mexican Politics, 1750–1940
Catholic Women and Mexican Politics, 1750-1940
Bandits and Liberals, Rebels and Saints
This book of essays is full of personality. Readers come to know the author and his likes, dislikes, quirks, and delights before they have even finished the introduction, and the friendship between author and reader continues to build throughout the essays. The book is also full of erudition (Knight’s early training in the history of many places besides Mexico emerges in enlightening ways), insights (most often, but by no means only, for Mexico),…
Talking back
In the spirit of the now-substantial body of scholarship that reveals the feistiness and political savviness of people formerly thought to have none, this article focuses on the ways that cloistere
Culture Wars in the Trenches? Public Schools and Catholic Education in Mexico, 1867-1897
In 1867 the Benito Juárez government prohibited the teaching of Christian doctrine in public schools. The ensuing debate over religion and education became part of Mexico's Kulturkampf. This article briefly surveys this debate but focuses on whether the same tensions that animated national discourses around education were felt (and acted upon) locally. The article analyzes detailed responses submitted by priests to an 1885 archiepiscopal question…
John Tutino. Making a New World
This is an extraordinary book. Its quality is signaled immediately by the fact that an excellent but ordinarily pragmatic academic press was willing to publish a 700-page book that is not really suitable for undergraduate courses. That first impression is reinforced by the prologue and introduction, in which authorial ambition, confidence, and conviction are abundantly on display. But it is only after the reader enters into the heart of the book …
The Catholic Church and the Ladies of the Vela Perpetua
Journal Article The Catholic Church and the Ladies of the Vela Perpetua: Gender and Devotional Change in Nineteenth-Century Mexico Get access Margaret Chowning Margaret Chowning University of California, Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 221, Issue 1, November 2013, Pages 197–237, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtt015 Published: 18 October 2013
New Worlds
This book by one of the field’s most distinguished historians is the first scholarly English- language history of the Catholic Church in Latin America from the conquest to the present. The language of the book is not heated or passionate — this is not Lynch’s style in any of his work — but it feels personal, almost like a labor of conscience. The central interpretive theme, and the one that lends the book its framework of analysis, is social just…
The Very Nature of God
This book offers an exceptionally clear, compelling picture of how ordinary people (at least those with enough savvy and property to make wills) practiced and understood Catholicism in eighteenth-century Mexico City. Brian R. Larkin’s central question is whether or not the populace responded positively to calls by several prominent clerics for a “new piety” that would emphasize contemplation rather than ritual; mental rather than bodily experienc…
Brides of Christ
If Brides of Christ were a collection of Asunción Lavrin’s dozens of articles on the convents and nuns of Mexico, it would have constituted a great service to the field. Many scholars would probably have chosen this path to publication. But Lavrin did not — she had more to discover for herself, and more to say, than is represented in those path-breaking articles published over a period of almost 30 years. The result of her decision to revisit the…
Convents and Nuns
This article serves as an introduction to the subject of the colonial Mexican convent for non‐experts, while surveying recent historiographical trends. In the past ten years, historical scholarship on nuns and convents has taken three broad directions. First, historians have begun to study other female religious institutions and other kinds of religious women than cloistered convents and nuns, though the number of works that explicitly compare th…
Convent Reform, Catholic Reform, and Bourbon Reform in Eighteenth-Century New Spain
In the late 1750s and early 1760s, the foundress of the new convent of La Purísima Concepción (San Miguel el Grande) and her abbesses struggled to ensure that their vision of a rigorously communal way of life (the vida común) and a strict observance of the vow of poverty would become a reality. Less than a decade later, the bishop of Puebla and the archbishop of Mexico initiated a movement that eventually forced nuns throughout the viceroyalty to…
Elite Families and Popular Politics in Early Nineteenth-Century Michoacan
Among other treasures, the tidy, compact municipal archive of Pátzcuaro houses a document of genuine antiquarian interest: the will of Juan José Codallos, recorded on July 9, 1831, just two days before he was executed for his role as the instigator and chief caudillo in Michoacán of the War of the South. Codallos began by stating that he was 41 years old, the son of Felipe Codallos and Andrea de Ponce; that he was in good health (considering that…
The Contours of the Post-1810 Depression in Mexico
Scholars generally agree that after 1810 the Mexican economy, shattered by destruction of property and flight of population and capital during the long wars for independence, entered a severe depression. It has usually been assumed that this depression persisted well beyond mid-century, exacerbated by political instability, banditry, and intermittent civil warfare. This assumption was given shape and substance by John Coatsworth's influential 197…
The Management of Church Wealth in Michoacán, Mexico, 1810-1856
Nowhere, perhaps, is the often-remarked historiographical bias in favour of social/economic studies for the colonial period and political/ institutional studies for the national period more jarring than in treatments of the activities of the Mexican church before and after independence.1 The position of the church in the colonial economy has been the subject of several specialised works and is widely regarded in broader histories as most signific…
The Consolidación de Vales Reales in the Bishopric of Michoacán
N 1804, the Spanish crown issued a decree that many historians consider an important, even essential, cause of colonial estrangement from Spain. The Consolidacion de Vales Reales ordered that liens and mortgages whose interest supported the pious works of the church-charities, chaplaincies, special masses, devotional cults, and the like-should be redeemed, and that property belonging to these foundations should be sold. The proceeds, along with a…
Culture Wars in the Trenches? Public Schools and Catholic Education in Mexico, 1867-1897
In 1867 the Benito Juárez government prohibited the teaching of Christian doctrine in public schools. The ensuing debate over religion and education became part of Mexico's Kulturkampf. This article briefly surveys this debate but focuses on whether the same tensions that animated national discourses around education were felt (and acted upon) locally. The article analyzes detailed responses submitted by priests to an 1885 archiepiscopal question…
The Catholic Church and the Ladies of the Vela Perpetua
Journal Article The Catholic Church and the Ladies of the Vela Perpetua: Gender and Devotional Change in Nineteenth-Century Mexico Get access Margaret Chowning Margaret Chowning University of California, Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 221, Issue 1, November 2013, Pages 197–237, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtt015 Published: 18 October 2013
Convent Reform, Catholic Reform, and Bourbon Reform in Eighteenth-Century New Spain
In the late 1750s and early 1760s, the foundress of the new convent of La Purísima Concepción (San Miguel el Grande) and her abbesses struggled to ensure that their vision of a rigorously communal way of life (the vida común) and a strict observance of the vow of poverty would become a reality. Less than a decade later, the bishop of Puebla and the archbishop of Mexico initiated a movement that eventually forced nuns throughout the viceroyalty to…
The Consolidación de Vales Reales in the Bishopric of Michoacán
N 1804, the Spanish crown issued a decree that many historians consider an important, even essential, cause of colonial estrangement from Spain. The Consolidacion de Vales Reales ordered that liens and mortgages whose interest supported the pious works of the church-charities, chaplaincies, special masses, devotional cults, and the like-should be redeemed, and that property belonging to these foundations should be sold. The proceeds, along with a…
Convents and Nuns
This article serves as an introduction to the subject of the colonial Mexican convent for non‐experts, while surveying recent historiographical trends. In the past ten years, historical scholarship on nuns and convents has taken three broad directions. First, historians have begun to study other female religious institutions and other kinds of religious women than cloistered convents and nuns, though the number of works that explicitly compare th…
Elite Families and Popular Politics in Early Nineteenth-Century Michoacan
Among other treasures, the tidy, compact municipal archive of Pátzcuaro houses a document of genuine antiquarian interest: the will of Juan José Codallos, recorded on July 9, 1831, just two days before he was executed for his role as the instigator and chief caudillo in Michoacán of the War of the South. Codallos began by stating that he was 41 years old, the son of Felipe Codallos and Andrea de Ponce; that he was in good health (considering that…
The Contours of the Post-1810 Depression in Mexico
Scholars generally agree that after 1810 the Mexican economy, shattered by destruction of property and flight of population and capital during the long wars for independence, entered a severe depression. It has usually been assumed that this depression persisted well beyond mid-century, exacerbated by political instability, banditry, and intermittent civil warfare. This assumption was given shape and substance by John Coatsworth's influential 197…
The Management of Church Wealth in Michoacán, Mexico, 1810-1856
Nowhere, perhaps, is the often-remarked historiographical bias in favour of social/economic studies for the colonial period and political/ institutional studies for the national period more jarring than in treatments of the activities of the Mexican church before and after independence.1 The position of the church in the colonial economy has been the subject of several specialised works and is widely regarded in broader histories as most signific…
The Consolidación de Vales Reales in the Bishopric of Michoacán
N 1804, the Spanish crown issued a decree that many historians consider an important, even essential, cause of colonial estrangement from Spain. The Consolidacion de Vales Reales ordered that liens and mortgages whose interest supported the pious works of the church-charities, chaplaincies, special masses, devotional cults, and the like-should be redeemed, and that property belonging to these foundations should be sold. The proceeds, along with a…
The Management of Church Wealth in Michoacán, Mexico, 1810-1856
Nowhere, perhaps, is the often-remarked historiographical bias in favour of social/economic studies for the colonial period and political/ institutional studies for the national period more jarring than in treatments of the activities of the Mexican church before and after independence.1 The position of the church in the colonial economy has been the subject of several specialised works and is widely regarded in broader histories as most signific…
The Contours of the Post-1810 Depression in Mexico
Scholars generally agree that after 1810 the Mexican economy, shattered by destruction of property and flight of population and capital during the long wars for independence, entered a severe depression. It has usually been assumed that this depression persisted well beyond mid-century, exacerbated by political instability, banditry, and intermittent civil warfare. This assumption was given shape and substance by John Coatsworth's influential 197…
Elite Families and Popular Politics in Early Nineteenth-Century Michoacan
Among other treasures, the tidy, compact municipal archive of Pátzcuaro houses a document of genuine antiquarian interest: the will of Juan José Codallos, recorded on July 9, 1831, just two days before he was executed for his role as the instigator and chief caudillo in Michoacán of the War of the South. Codallos began by stating that he was 41 years old, the son of Felipe Codallos and Andrea de Ponce; that he was in good health (considering that…
Convent Reform, Catholic Reform, and Bourbon Reform in Eighteenth-Century New Spain
In the late 1750s and early 1760s, the foundress of the new convent of La Purísima Concepción (San Miguel el Grande) and her abbesses struggled to ensure that their vision of a rigorously communal way of life (the vida común) and a strict observance of the vow of poverty would become a reality. Less than a decade later, the bishop of Puebla and the archbishop of Mexico initiated a movement that eventually forced nuns throughout the viceroyalty to…
Convents and Nuns
This article serves as an introduction to the subject of the colonial Mexican convent for non‐experts, while surveying recent historiographical trends. In the past ten years, historical scholarship on nuns and convents has taken three broad directions. First, historians have begun to study other female religious institutions and other kinds of religious women than cloistered convents and nuns, though the number of works that explicitly compare th…
Brides of Christ
If Brides of Christ were a collection of Asunción Lavrin’s dozens of articles on the convents and nuns of Mexico, it would have constituted a great service to the field. Many scholars would probably have chosen this path to publication. But Lavrin did not — she had more to discover for herself, and more to say, than is represented in those path-breaking articles published over a period of almost 30 years. The result of her decision to revisit the…
The Very Nature of God
This book offers an exceptionally clear, compelling picture of how ordinary people (at least those with enough savvy and property to make wills) practiced and understood Catholicism in eighteenth-century Mexico City. Brian R. Larkin’s central question is whether or not the populace responded positively to calls by several prominent clerics for a “new piety” that would emphasize contemplation rather than ritual; mental rather than bodily experienc…
John Tutino. Making a New World
This is an extraordinary book. Its quality is signaled immediately by the fact that an excellent but ordinarily pragmatic academic press was willing to publish a 700-page book that is not really suitable for undergraduate courses. That first impression is reinforced by the prologue and introduction, in which authorial ambition, confidence, and conviction are abundantly on display. But it is only after the reader enters into the heart of the book …
The Catholic Church and the Ladies of the Vela Perpetua
Journal Article The Catholic Church and the Ladies of the Vela Perpetua: Gender and Devotional Change in Nineteenth-Century Mexico Get access Margaret Chowning Margaret Chowning University of California, Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 221, Issue 1, November 2013, Pages 197–237, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtt015 Published: 18 October 2013
New Worlds
This book by one of the field’s most distinguished historians is the first scholarly English- language history of the Catholic Church in Latin America from the conquest to the present. The language of the book is not heated or passionate — this is not Lynch’s style in any of his work — but it feels personal, almost like a labor of conscience. The central interpretive theme, and the one that lends the book its framework of analysis, is social just…
Culture Wars in the Trenches? Public Schools and Catholic Education in Mexico, 1867-1897
In 1867 the Benito Juárez government prohibited the teaching of Christian doctrine in public schools. The ensuing debate over religion and education became part of Mexico's Kulturkampf. This article briefly surveys this debate but focuses on whether the same tensions that animated national discourses around education were felt (and acted upon) locally. The article analyzes detailed responses submitted by priests to an 1885 archiepiscopal question…
Talking back
In the spirit of the now-substantial body of scholarship that reveals the feistiness and political savviness of people formerly thought to have none, this article focuses on the ways that cloistere
Catholic Women and Mexican Politics, 1750-1940
What accounts for the enduring power of the Catholic Church, which withstood widespread and sustained anticlerical opposition in Mexico? This book locates an answer in the untold story of how the Mexican Catholic church in the nineteenth century excluded, then accepted, and then came to depend on women as leaders in church organizations. But much more than a study of women and the church or the feminization of piety, the book links new female lay…
Catholic Women and Mexican Politics, 1750–1940
Catholic Women and Mexican Politics, 1750-1940
Bandits and Liberals, Rebels and Saints
This book of essays is full of personality. Readers come to know the author and his likes, dislikes, quirks, and delights before they have even finished the introduction, and the friendship between author and reader continues to build throughout the essays. The book is also full of erudition (Knight’s early training in the history of many places besides Mexico emerges in enlightening ways), insights (most often, but by no means only, for Mexico),…
Law (14 works) · Political science (14 works) · History (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Politics (9 works) · Historical Studies in Latin America (8 works) · Latin American history and culture (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Early Modern Women Writers (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works)