Of Wonders and Wise Men: Religion and Popular Cultures in Southeast Mexico

In the tumultuous decades following Mexico's independence from Spain, religion provided a unifying force among the Mexican people, who otherwise varied greatly in ethnicity and socio-economic status. Accordingly, religion and the popular cultures surrounding it form the lens through which the author focuses this cultural history of south-east Mexico from independence (1821) to the rise of the dictator Porfirio Diaz in 1876.