Saturday, January 10, 2004

2:30–4:30 a.m.

109. Piety, Polity, and Praxis in Modern Mexico: New Approaches to Popular Religion
Omni Shoreham, Calvert Room

Joint session with the Conference on Latin American History

Chair: Margaret Chowning, University of California at Berkeley
Papers:

Liberal Religion: The Schism of 1861
Pamela Voekel, University of Georgia

Sin Fronteras? Local Religious Politics and Practices in a Transnational Era: Michoacán Catholicism, 1890–1990
Luis Murillo, Trinity University

Re-Visions of Oaxacan Catholicism: Indian Women, Revelation, and Negotiating Belief and Practice, 1911–34
Edward Wright-Rios, University of California at San Diego

Icon, Local Piety, and Semioclasm in the Mexican Revolution
Adrian A. Bantjes, University of Wyoming
Comment: Alan Knight, St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford