Religion and State Formation in Postrevolutionary MexicoThe religion questionthe place of the Church in a Catholic country after an anticlerical revolutionprofoundly shaped the process of state formation in Mexico. From the end of the Cristero War in 1929 until Manuel vila Camacho assumed the presidency in late 1940 and declared his faith, Mexico's unresolved religious conflict roiled regional politics, impeded federal schooling, undermined agrarian reform, and flared into sporadic violence, ultimately