Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

This article addresses a little-known religious rebellion that occurred between 1873 and 1876, during the administration of Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada, following the constitutionalization and rigorous application of the Laws of Reform. It summarizes the most important military aspects of the armed movement, which was localized in the state of Michoacán and the zone bordering on Guanajuato. It establishes the connections between the Religionero movement –as it was known at the time, although by the end of the nineteenth century they began to be called Cristeros, in an apparent anticipation of the twentieth-century Cristero rebellion– with other conservative movements that preceded it and analyzes the ideology professed by these rural Catholic rebels, who would later join the triumphant Tuxtepec Rebellion.

This article analyzes the evolution of posthumous treatment of the body during the nineteenth century in the territory of what is now Mexico (particularly the bishopric of Chiapa y Soconusco) through antecedents in the Mesoamerican past and under the Spanish colonial regime. Bibliographic sources and archival documents allow for an understanding of the concept of “cadaver” through three different aspects: as a reverential object of sacralization (relic), as a feared source of impurity and contamination (waste), and as an increasingly festive patriotic symbol (fetish). In what way did these conceptual phases intervene in the processes of conquest, colonization and formation of the Mexican nation-state? What role did the notion of “piety” play in each one of them?

This article explains the political ideas of Pablo García Montilla during his years of exile in Mérida and contextualizes them in the intellectual panorama of his times. It is specifically interested in the period in which he was the director of the Literary Institute and president of the Yucatán Public Instruction Council and studies his many essays on humanity, science and politics published between 1879 and 1881 in El Libre Examen, a cutting-edge liberal newspaper that he codirected with Antonio Cisneros and which featured contributions from many of the epoch’s most important liberals. The first part contextualizes García’s ideas in the intellectual panorama of his times and the second explores them in depth.

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