Matthew Butler is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Popular Piety and Political Identity in Mexico's Cristero Rebellion: MichoacA!n, 1927-29.
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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter One. Habemus Perez, 1925 Chapter Two. "Mexico's Newest Revolution": ICAM Chapter Three. The Other Cristiada: Perez's Second Coming Chapter Four. "Our Beloved Peasants": ICAM on the Ejido Chapter Five. "Aca todo es vida": ICAM as Local Religion Chapter Six. Bronze Priests: Mexican Revolutionary Clergy Conclusion. Perez Is Dead, Viva Perez Notes Bibliography Index
"In this first-ever study in English of the pro-revolutionary Mexican Catholic and Apostolic Church and the patriarch who led it, Matthew Butler offers readers a fascinating reconceptualization of popular, indigenous, and revolutionary religiosity in Mexico during the first half of the twentieth century. In his tremendously rich and detailed book, Butler reveals that Mexico was not simply a Catholic country but was instead a country of 'competing Catholicisms.'"-Julia G. Young, author of Mexican Exodus: Emigrants, Exiles, and Refugees of the Cristero War "Mexico's Spiritual Reconquest radically reshapes our understanding of this long-ignored (or actively misrepresented independent Catholic church."-Ben Fallaw, author of Religion and State Formation in Postrevolutionary Mexico