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Article: Religious Culture in Modern Mexico.(Book review)
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- Church History
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- March 1, 2008
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Religious Culture in Modern Mexico. Edited by Martin Austin Nesvig. Jaguar Books on Latin America Series. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007. x + 282 pp. $75.00 cloth; $29.95 paper.
Liberal reformer Nicolas Pizarro Suarez's 1861 Catecismo politico constitucional (Mexico City), an official school textbook published in the midst of raging church-state conflict, counseled its young readers that "if your country's tyrant threatens you with cruel torments for not obeying his laws, resist, let him see you smile; this is what the first, real Christians practiced as they marched to their martyrdom" (as cited on 97). His pointed advice illustrates Pamela Voekel's ...