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GONZALEZ MORFIN, Juan. The historiography of the cristero war within an official catholic history. Rev. hist. Am. [online]. 2024, n.168, pp.155-187.  Epub 02-Maio-2025. ISSN 2663-371X.  https://doi.org/10.35424/rha.168.2024.5740.

After a period in which the religious conflict known as the Cristero is barely mentioned, some works signed by those who had participated, both on the side of the government and the Cristero militias, began to appear. These narratives were characterized by an apologetic bias and not infrequently fell into Manichaean views. Although many of these contained interesting testimonial elements, they did not serve to deal with the complexity of what happened. It coincided with the beginnings of the professionalization of history in Mexico that, practically at the same time, several Mexican and foreign authors approached the Cristero theme from a different perspective and resorting to primary sources. With this, a version was obtained that revealed the complexity of the problem and opened up a huge number of lines of research. This work is aimed at illustrating the path of historiography until reaching the present moment and what were the characteristics and motivations of the different stages, as well as the lines of research that have been opened in this field.

Palavras-chave : Religious conflict; testimonies; professionalization of history; primary sources; Mexican government; Catholic Church.

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