TY - BOOK ID - 78109787 TI - Searching for Madre Matiana : prophecy and popular culture in modern Mexico PY - 2014 SN - 082634660X 9780826346605 9780826346599 0826346596 1322319588 PB - Albuquerque: University of New Mexico press, DB - UniCat KW - Women in the Catholic Church KW - History. KW - Matiana, KW - Prophecies. KW - Catholic Church KW - Mexico KW - Anáhuac KW - Estados Unidos Mexicanos KW - Maxico KW - Méjico KW - Mekishiko KW - Meḳsiḳe KW - Meksiko KW - Meksyk KW - Messico KW - Mexique (Country) KW - República Mexicana KW - Stany Zjednoczone Meksyku KW - United Mexican States KW - United States of Mexico KW - מקסיקו KW - メキシコ KW - Church history KW - History KW - Church of Rome KW - Roman Catholic Church KW - Katholische Kirche KW - Katolyt︠s︡ʹka t︠s︡erkva KW - Römisch-Katholische Kirche KW - Römische Kirche KW - Ecclesia Catholica KW - Eglise catholique KW - Eglise catholique-romaine KW - Katolicheskai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ KW - Chiesa cattolica KW - Iglesia Católica KW - Kościół Katolicki KW - Katolicki Kościół KW - Kościół Rzymskokatolicki KW - Nihon Katorikku Kyōkai KW - Katholikē Ekklēsia KW - Gereja Katolik KW - Kenesiyah ha-Ḳatolit KW - Kanisa Katoliki KW - כנסיה הקתולית KW - כנסייה הקתולית KW - 가톨릭교 KW - 천주교 KW - Women in the Catholic Church - Mexico - History. KW - Matiana (Madre) KW - Matiana, - Madre - Prophecies. KW - Mexico - History - Prophecies. KW - Mexico - Church history - 19th century. KW - Matiana, - Madre UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78109787 AB - In the mid-nineteenth century prophetic visions attributed to a woman named Madre Matiana roiled Mexican society. Pamphlets of the time proclaimed that decades earlier a humble laywoman foresaw the nation’s calamitous destiny―foreign invasion, widespread misery, and chronic civil strife. The revelations, however, pinpointed the cause of Mexico’s struggles: God was punishing the nation for embracing blasphemous secularism. Responses ranged from pious alarm to incredulous scorn. Although most likely a fiction cooked up amid the era’s culture wars, Madre Matiana’s persona nevertheless endured. In fact, her predictions remained influential well into the twentieth century as society debated the nature of popular culture, the crux of modern nationhood, and the role of women, especially religious women. Here Edward Wright-Rios examines this much-maligned―and sometimes celebrated―character and her position in the development of a nation. ER -