The Cristero Counterrevolution and the Battle for the Soul of Mexico music In Africa as elsewhere

In Africa as elsewhere

Newman felt compelled to write a rebuttal

It is more than an analysis of key texts

not before they had been enthusiastically adopted in wave after wave of reforms culminating in the creation of new rites in the 1960s

An important critique of simplistic accounts of liturgical inculturation

The Cristero Counterrevolution and the Battle for the Soul of Mexico music In Africa as elsewhereA true religious war, never before seen on our continent, broke out as a result of certain persecutory laws against the Church and her faithful in Mexico from 1926 to 1929. In the conflict, a large part of the Catholic laity, using peaceful means at first and later violent ones, took up arms against the civil governmenteven to the regret and against the advice of many in the ecclesiastical hierarchy, unsure of the right course of action to take.