El origen y protagonismo de la masonería en Michoacán, 1821-1831

Abstract

he study of social skills is a research area in which cultural, as well as political
and social history are intertwined. Within this ield, we can distinguish
the speciic subject of the emergence, settling and impact of Freemasonry
in Mexico during the last two centuries. In the present paper, the presence
of such groups will be looked at in the state of Michoacán at the beginning
of the independent period, through the “York” and “Scottish” lodges. Many
members of renowned groups of political power used these lodges as a protest
space. hey debated and manoeuvred around the organizational models that
they considered suitable for Mexico from their respective individual and collective
points of view and expectations. his paper presents a prosopographical
outline of the most representative members of the federalist-liberal and
centralist-conservative coalitions, which at the same time supported these
lodges, even ater their formal ban by the federal government in the autumn
of 1828. he study will emphasize their force correlations and their respective
networks.