![]() ![]() In the case of Mexico, this was especially evident in the historiography of the popular religious uprising that erupted in central Mexico in the 1920s, whose participants came to be known as cristeros-a curious epithet first used by the regime to mock the rebels’ battle cry: “ ˋViva Cristo Rey!” (“Long live Christ the King”). If religion was referred to, it was invariably in a negative light, for it was seen as the bête noire of revolutionary historiography, an intractable hurdle delaying the otherwise inevitable triumph of reason over superstition, universality over particularity, progress over backwardness. For a long time the Mexican Revolution, like the French and the Russian, was such a topic. Few areas of study awaken more suspicion among historians than religion, not least when it is brought into topics traditionally considered as emblematic of advancing secularism. ![]()
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