The Revolution on Trial
Assassination, Christianity, and the Rule of Law in 1920s Mexico
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2787643 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert Wei (0000-0003-4451-8373), Robert Weis (0000-0001-8510-0227, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 96 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 319-353 |
| Publication date | 2016-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hispanic American Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2168 • E-ISSN: 1527-1900 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00182168-3484197 |
| OpenAlex | W2343583083 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 26 |
The 1928 trial of José de León Toral, assassin of Mexican caudillo Álvaro Obregón, afforded President Plutarco Elías Calles the opportunity to show domestic and international audiences that the revolution had yielded a nation of laws predicated on spiritual principles. Summary executions of Catholics had allowed detractors and even sympathetic observers to question the depth of civic values in Mexico. The article shows how authorities deliberately presented the hearing as the concrete realization of Calles's claim that his administration had established institutions that embodied the principles of the revolution. Although the Christian idioms presented by the prosecution support recent scholarly arguments regarding deist tendencies within revolutionary ideologies, this article points out that the government's emphasis on its spiritual conviction sought to bolster the claim that anticlericalism was not antireligious but rather necessary for the rule of law
Bolster · Christianity · Conviction · Government (linguistics) · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Rule of law · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Law · Philosophy · Politics and Society in Latin America · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious studies
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Violence, Coercion, and State-Making in Twentieth-Century Mexico
The Vatican and Catholic Activism in Mexico and Chile
Dictablanda
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Anti-Catholicism in Germany, Britain, and the United States
Idolatry and Iconoclasm in Revolutionary Mexico
The Demon Inside
The Church in ‘Red Mexico’
Mexican Constitution of 1917 Compared With Constitution of 1857
Mexican Revolutionary Anticlericalism
Varieties of Mexican Revolutionary Anticlericalism
Sotanas Rojinegras
Anticlericalism in the Mexican Constitutional Convention of 1916–1917
A Catholic Alternative to Revolution
Pious Delinquents
Everyday Forms of State Formation
God'sCampesinos? Mexico's Revolutionary Church in the Countryside
Building the Christian City
Diplomáticos, periodistas, espías y publicistas
The Seduction of Revolution
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |