Prophecy and Popular Culture in Modern Mexico
by
Edward Wright-Rios
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
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,...