Magistrates of the sacred : priests and parishioners in eighteenth-century Mexico

Author(s)

• Taylor, William B.

Bibliographic Information

Magistrates of the sacred : priests and parishioners in eighteenth-century Mexico

William B. Taylor

Stanford University Press, 1996

• : cloth

Note

Bibliography: p. [811]-847

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book is an extraordinarily rich account of the social, political, cultural, and religious relationships between parish priests and their parishioners in colonial Mexico. It explores a wide range of issues - the competing interpretations of religious dogma and beliefs, questions of practical ethics and daily behaviour, the texture of social relations in rural communities and the relationship to authority and the state. Parish priests, as agents of the state religion and as intermediaries both between parishioners and higher authorities and between the sacred and the profane, performed a pivotal role in colonial society. This book provides a social history of parish priests at work and examines the wider religious and political culture of their parishes. The book concludes by moving a step beyond the conventional termination of colonial history in 1810 to consider the famed role of parish priests as fighters and leaders in the struggle for Mexican independence.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Part I. Politics, Place, and Religion: 1. Parish Priests in Bourbon Mexico
• 2. The Archdiocese of Mexico and the diocese of Guadalajara
• 3. Issues of local religion
• Part II. Priests: 4. Becoming a Parish Priest
• 5. The careers of Parish Priests
• 6. Making a living
• 7. Priests as judges and teachers
• 8. Priests at work
• 9. Sanctions and deference
• Part III. Parishioners: 10. Christian duties and local celebrations
• 11. Saints and images
• 12. Cofradias
• 13. The Curas' lay network
• Part IV. The Politics of Parish Life:14. Officials, popular action, and disputes with Parish Priests
• 15. Leadership and dissention in Pueblo politics
• 16. District governors and Parish Priests
• 17. Arancel disputes
• Appendixes.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA28480584
• ISBN:
  • 0804724563
• LCCN: 95022982
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Stanford, Calif.
• Pages/Volumes: xiv, 868 p.
• Size: 26 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BX1428.2
  • DC20 : 282/.72/09033
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Catholic Church -- Mexico -- History -- 18th century
  • LCSH : Church and state -- Mexico -- History -- 18th century
  • LCSH : Mexico -- Church history -- 18th century