Scratching the Surface of “Everyday Forms of State Formation”

The book of related articles, Everyday Forms of State Formation, Revolution and the Negotiation of Rule in Modern Mexico, is the result of a scholarly conference on the relationship between popular cultures in Mexico and the post-Revolutionary Mexican State’s hegemonic project. The complex variety and nuance often overlooked when addressing such large concepts like state, [...]

Marian Apparitions and Popular Catholicism in Nineteenth-Century Europe

During the nineteenth-century the philosophy of the Enlightenment introduced new concepts  that challenged traditional European thinking. The regicide and Terror of the French Revolution profoundly threatened the position of elites throughout Europe, and the republican ideology and secularization institutionalized by the Revolution undermined the authority of both the aristocracy and the Catholic Church. [...]