January 3, 2020
Religion is central to life in Mexico and Mexican America. Religious understandings and goals inform and energize politics, community lives, gender relations, migration, and more. Yet there is no singular Mexican religion; rather, a universe of visions and understandings shape the changing communities of Mexico and Mexican America. The powerful and the populace, rural peoples and the growing numbers streaming into cities across greater North America live in worlds defined and at times contested by religious commitments.
Leading scholars gathered at the Mexican Cultural Institute of Washington, DC, in November 2019 to discuss the role of religion in Mexican politics, migration, and Mexican-American communities from 1920 to 2020. The Berkley Forum welcomes conference participants to share their reflections from the meeting.
This week the Berkley Forum asks: How has religion shaped the modern Mexican nation-state? What is the historical relationship between Mexican nationalism and Roman Catholicism? How have religious practices and worldviews intersected with Mexican migration? What roles has religion played in the construction of Mexican-American communities in the United States?
related conference | Religion in Mexican Politics, Migration, and Mexican American Communities, 1920–2020
Response: A Battle for the Soul of the Nation: Eugenics and Religion in Post-Revolutionary Mexico, 1925–1935
Elizabeth O’Brien
January 3, 2020
Emilio Coral Garcia
January 3, 2020
Response: Cristero Legacies: Conflict, Landlessness, and Bracero Emigration in Mexico's Rosary Belt
Alberto García Maldonado
January 3, 2020
Response: December 12, 1531: Garrido Canabal against Guadalupe
Ben Fallaw
January 3, 2020
Response: Food for Healing: Food Sovereignty Movements in Mexican and Mexican-American Communities
Alyshia Gálvez
January 3, 2020
Response: Montezuma’s Gold: U.S.-Mexican Diplomacy and the Rebuilding of Mexican Catholicism, 1937–1960
Matthew Butler
January 3, 2020
Response: “Chicago Católico”: Making Parishes Mexican in Pilsen
Deborah Kanter
January 3, 2020
Response: “The Revolution is Afraid”: Cristeros and Sinarquistas in Mexico and the United States, 1926–1950
Julia Young
January 3, 2020
