Searching for Madre Matiana
Prophecy and Popular Culture in Modern Mexico
In the mid-nineteenth century prophetic visions attributed to a woman named Madre Matiana roiled Mexican society. Pamphlets of the time proclaimed that decades earlier a humble laywoman foresaw the nation's calamitous destiny-foreign invasion, widespread misery, and chronic civil strife. The revelations, however, pinpointed the cause of Mexico's struggles: God was punishing the nation for embracing blasphemous secularism. Responses ranged from pious alarm to incredulous scorn. Although most likely a fiction cooked up amid the era's culture wars, Madre Matiana's persona nevertheless endured. In fact, her predictions remained influential well i…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8263-4660-5
- EAN: 9780826346605
- Produktnummer: 34255818
- Verlag: University of New Mexico Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 392 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 7'304 KB
Über den Autor
Edward Wright-Rios is an associate professor of history at Vanderbilt University. He is also the author of Revolutions in Mexican Catholicism: Reform and Revelation in Oaxaca, 1887-1934.
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