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Abstract
The land of Mexico prior to colonization was composed of various large cities that upon colonization much of the land became New Spain. During this pre independence era of Mexico’s history the Indians were subjected to many changes in their culture through the Catholic Church and the Spanish Government. Religious conversion was accepted by the Indians as means to stop directed violence to the unconverted. The multidialectal cultures embraced Castilian as a common language that facilitated communication with the Spanish colonizers and between villages. The desire to integrate into the new Catholic and Spanish system gave rise to Indian litigation that successfully won the Indians their own convents to follow the teachings of the Church without racial exclusions by the Spanish. Post-independence Indian Catholic influence became well integrated into the culture, so much that the Church exerted strong opposition to the Mexican government to prevent secular sex education in schools during the early 1900s. During this period of opposition between the Catholic Church and the Mexican government, the government seized churches and reduced clergy by decree. Accusations by the Church of persecution forced the Mexican government to redress its agenda to integrate Catholic objectives. This integration gave rise to the PRI political party which uses mythology of the revolution to appeal to the highly religious and conservative elite.
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Political Influences by the Catholic Church and Spanish Government in Colonial Mexico
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The land of Mexico prior to colonization was composed of various large cities that upon colonization much of the land became New Spain. During this pre independence era of Mexico’s history the Indians were subjected to many changes in their culture through the Catholic Church and the Spanish Government. Religious conversion was accepted by the Indians as means to stop directed violence to the unconverted. The multidialectal cultures embraced Castilian as a common language that facilitated communication with the Spanish colonizers and between villages. The desire to integrate into the new Catholic and Spanish system gave rise to Indian litigation that successfully won the Indians their own convents to follow the teachings of the Church without racial exclusions by the Spanish. Post-independence Indian Catholic influence became well integrated into the culture, so much that the Church exerted strong opposition to the Mexican government to prevent secular sex education in schools during the early 1900s. During this period of opposition between the Catholic Church and the Mexican government, the government seized churches and reduced clergy by decree. Accusations by the Church of persecution forced the Mexican government to redress its agenda to integrate Catholic objectives. This integration gave rise to the PRI political party which uses mythology of the revolution to appeal to the highly religious and conservative elite.
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