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Citizens and Believers

Religion and Politics in Revolutionary Jalisco, 1900–1930

Robert Curley author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:University of New Mexico Press

Published:30th Nov '18

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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.

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

ISBN: 9780826355379

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 789g

384 pages