Edward Wright-Rios

About The Author

Edward Wright-Rios is an associate professor of history at Vanderbilt University. He is also the author of Revolutions in Mexican Catholicism: Reform and Revelation in Oaxaca, 1887-1934.

Books by Edward Wright-Rios

Searching for Madre Matiana

Prophecy and Popular Culture in Modern Mexico

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 reve...
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