{"title":"\"Todo lo que dicen los libros son puras mentiras:\" Rescuing the legacy of the Cristero Rebellion (1926-1929) through popular narratives","authors":"Edma Delgado Solórzano","doi":"10.1353/hcs.2019.0008","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Resumen:Este trabajo analiza las cartas, historias de vida, testimonios, correspondencia, y propaganda impresa de los hombres y mujeres Católicos que tomaron las armas para resistir los intentos de secularizar a México durante la Rebelión Cristera (1926-1929). Estas narrativas orales y textos muestran que los participantes emplearon la retorica de la religión tradicional y la cultura popular—tales como tropos del honor, el martirio, la intercesión divina, y las cruzadas—para explicar los motivos de su alzamiento y para rechazar narrativas oficiales del conflicto que desestimaron los méritos de la revuelta y denigraron a los combatientes. Los valores culturales fomentados por estos discursos sirvieron no solo para justificar la guerra, sino también como la base ideológica para desarrollar un proyecto de identidad nacional Católico.Abstract:This paper examines the letters, life histories, testimonials, and correspondence, and print propaganda of Catholic men and women who took up arms to resist state-sponsored secularization efforts in Mexico during the Cristero Rebellion (1926-1929). These texts and oral narratives reveal that these participants relied on rhetoric from traditional religion and popular culture—tropes of honor, martyrdom, divine intercession, and crusade—to explain their uprising and to contest official narratives that discredited the merits of the revolt and disparaged the rebels. The cultural values promoted by these discourses served not only to justify the war, but also as the ideological foundation for a Catholic national identity project.","PeriodicalId":366492,"journal":{"name":"Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hcs.2019.0008","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Resumen:Este trabajo analiza las cartas, historias de vida, testimonios, correspondencia, y propaganda impresa de los hombres y mujeres Católicos que tomaron las armas para resistir los intentos de secularizar a México durante la Rebelión Cristera (1926-1929). Estas narrativas orales y textos muestran que los participantes emplearon la retorica de la religión tradicional y la cultura popular—tales como tropos del honor, el martirio, la intercesión divina, y las cruzadas—para explicar los motivos de su alzamiento y para rechazar narrativas oficiales del conflicto que desestimaron los méritos de la revuelta y denigraron a los combatientes. Los valores culturales fomentados por estos discursos sirvieron no solo para justificar la guerra, sino también como la base ideológica para desarrollar un proyecto de identidad nacional Católico.Abstract:This paper examines the letters, life histories, testimonials, and correspondence, and print propaganda of Catholic men and women who took up arms to resist state-sponsored secularization efforts in Mexico during the Cristero Rebellion (1926-1929). These texts and oral narratives reveal that these participants relied on rhetoric from traditional religion and popular culture—tropes of honor, martyrdom, divine intercession, and crusade—to explain their uprising and to contest official narratives that discredited the merits of the revolt and disparaged the rebels. The cultural values promoted by these discourses served not only to justify the war, but also as the ideological foundation for a Catholic national identity project.