People Love Their Religion

Political Conflict on Religion in Early Independent Mexico

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3376926
AutoresSilke Hensel (0000-0003-4348-348X, University of Münster, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen12
Número1
Páginas60
Fecha de publicación2021-01-16
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaReligions (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444
EditorialMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/rel12010060
OpenAlexW3118800663
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas16

Global histories commonly attribute the secularization of the state exclusively to Europe. However, the church state conflict over these issues has been an important thread in much of Latin America. In Mexico, questions about the role of religion and the church in society became a major political conflict after independence. Best known for the Mexican case are the disputes over the constitution of 1857, which laid down the freedom of religion, and the Cristero Revolt in the 1920s. However, the history of struggles over secularization goes back further. In 1835, the First Republic ultimately failed, because of the massive protests against the anticlerical laws of the government. In the paper, this failure is understood as a genuine religious conflict over the question of the proper social and political order, in which large sections of the population were involved. Beginning with the anticlerical laws of 1833, political and religious reaction in Mexico often began with a pronunciamiento (a mixture of rebellion and petitioning the authorities) and evolved into conflicts over federalism vs. centralism

Centralized government · Constitution · Federalism · Freedom of Religion · Human rights · Latin Americans · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Secular state · Secularization · Social conflict · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Religion and Society in Latin America · Religion and Society Interactions