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Religion and State Formation in Postrevolutionary Mexico by Ben Fallaw (review)

For those whose careers have been informed by efforts to understand the worlds of the Latin American poor, the “everyday forms of state formation” approach has proved useful. Indeed, for scholars whose multiarchival, physically dangerous work led to previously unknown worlds populated by communities inhabited by women, indigenous people, and the poor—populations that previously had gone unseen in much of the scholarly literature—this approach proved crucial. It enabled “ordinary” people and their complex material cultural perspectives, rather than simply those of Mexican elites, to emerge historiographically. Clearly, it has been an approach based on the scholarly recognition of the material natures of perspectives, of the intimate connections between ideas and the resulting political and economic activities, the sort of comprehensive approach long employed by thoughtful scholars elsewhere. In fact, in his new monograph, Religion and State Formation in Postrevolutionary Mexico, Ben Fallaw both builds on his understanding of that approach and contests it.