Dissertation Information for Rodney R. Alvarez NAME: - Rodney R. Alvarez
DEGREE:
- Ph.D.
DISCIPLINE:
- History
SCHOOL:
- University of California, Los Angeles (USA) (2000)
ADVISORS: - James W. Wilkie
COMMITTEE MEMBERS: - James Lockhart - David Lopez
MPACT Status: Fully Complete
Title: The rise of "modern society" and the middle class in industrializing Mexico City: The view from a parish, 1940--1960
Abstract: This work is a study on the rise of "modern society" in Mexico City during the 1940-1960s from the perspective of a Catholic parish. It examines the role of religion in the formation of Mexico's modern culture and the socio-economic transformations occurring in Mexico City, which lead Catholics to conclude that traditional values and morals were in jeopardy. Moreover, it examines two Catholic campaigns: The Campaign to Conquer the Environs for Christ (1940-1950) and the Catholic Moralization Campaign (1951-1960) in order to analyze how catholics coped with the assault on traditions and morals caused by a growing secularization of society and culture.
This work argues that the socio-economic and cultural changes occurring in the parish of San Agustin de las Cuevas during the 1940-1960s were a microcosm of what was occurring in all of Mexico City. In addition, this work argues that the campaigns launched by Catholics against this modernization process altered the process of secularization transpiring in Mexico City. The Catholic campaigns served to validate catholic symbols, rites, and roles; and ensured the continued exercise of the Church's role as principal arbiter of the nation's morals and values.
This study utilizes several sources for interpreting the period: Minutes from parish lay organizations, weekly parish newsletters, weekly announcements (avisos) the priest would say after mass, correspondence between the diocese and the parish, correspondence between diocese lay leaders and parish lay organizations, and diocese archives relating to administration and visits to the parish. These records permit a view at the daily activities of the parish, and the discourse of the parish priest to his laity.
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