Citizens and Believers helps to lay a new path for thinking about the Cristero Rebellion specifically, but also for considering the intersections among religious faith, politics, modernity, and violence. It offers both specific detail and theoretical framing.--Susan Fitzpatrick-Behrens, American Historical Review

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

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