Yucatán in an Era of Globalization (review)
derson, not surprisingly, sees the Church as a central component of Garcia Moreno's nation-building project. The chapter most focusing on nation-building is entitled "Forging the National Soul: The Coming of the Catholic Nation." This chapter notes various ways in which Church institutions contributed to state building, for example in education and health care. It might have been strengthened, however, by going beyond institutional specifics to provide a more articulated analysis of the ways in which the Church supplied Garcia Moreno with an ideational and/or symbolic framework in support of his nation building. Juan Maiguashca (1994), for example, suggests that, for Garcia Moreno, Roman Catholicism offered, among other things, a source of national identity, legitimacy for the state, and social discipline.