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.
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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