Citizens and Believers: Religion and Politics in Revolutionary Jalisco, 1900–1930 - Hardcover

Curley, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0826355374 ISBN 13: 9780826355379

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press, 2018

Synopsis

This book shows the centrality of religion to the making of the 1910 Mexican revolution. It goes beyond conventional studies of church-state conflict to focus on Catholics as political subjects whose religious identity became a fundamental aspect of citizenship during the first three decades of the twentieth century.

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About the Author

Robert Curley is currently the chair of the Departamento de Estudios Socio Urbanos, an interdisciplinary research institute at the University of Guadalajara in Mexico. His interests include cultural history, secularization and religious practice, and the Mexican revolution.

Review

"Curley effectively navigates the tension between church-state relations and local dynamics as a cause of the conflict. This monograph will serve anyone examining the revolutionary period in Mexico in general and church-state relations in particular."

--H-LatAm

"With vivid prose and lyrical language, Curley narrates how Mexican Catholic men and women in early twentieth-century Jalisco tried valiantly to gain a foothold in civil society: forming political parties, founding workers' unions, participating in public pilgrimages, and resisting anticlericalism through religious practice. Curley's incisive analysis generates an invaluable and original portrait of Catholic citizens as truly modern political actors."--Julia G. Young, author of Mexican Exodus: Emigrants, Exiles, and Refugees of the Cristero War

About this edition

• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0826355374
• ISBN 13: 9780826355379
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 400