Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Miserables and Citizens: Indians, Legal Pluralism, and Religious Practice in Early Republican Mexico
Chapter 3: "Para formar el corazón religioso de los jóvenes": Processes of Change in Collective Religiosity in Nineteenth-Century Oaxaca
Chapter 4: Mexican Laywomen Spearhead a Catholic Revival: The Ladies of Charity, 1863–1910
Chapter 5: Liberal Religion: The Schism of 1861
Chapter 6: Priests and Caudillos in the Novel of the Mexican Nation
Chapter 7: "A New Political Religious Order": Church, State, and Workers in Porfirian Mexico
Chapter 8: Rights, Rule, and Religion: Old Colony Mennonites and Mexico's Transition to the Free Market, 1920–2000
Chapter 9: Visions of Women: Revelation, Gender, and Catholic Resurgence
Chapter 10: Juan Soldado: The Popular Canonization of a Confessed Rapist-Murderer
Chapter 11: Religion and the Mexican Revolution: Toward a New Historiography

About the Author

Martin Austin Nesvig is assistant professor of history at the University of Miami.

Reviews

Collectively the authors address, often in imaginative ways, the breadth and depth of religiosity in Mexico and its consequences.
*Hispanic American Historical Review*

Religious Culture in Modern Mexico compliments Martin Nesvig's other recent edited volume . . . providing the most comprehensive overview of current research on religion in Mexico.
*Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture*

All the essays are well written and rooted in considerable scholarly research. . . . It should also appeal to anyone concerned with the role of religion and the Catholic Church in the modern era.
*The Catholic Historical Review*

This follow-up to Nesvig's earlier collection of essays on local religion in colonial Mexico is conceptually more challenging than the excellent colonial volume because of the paucity of the literature on religion (as opposed to the literature on church-state relations) in the modern period, and because of the complexity of the political context. It succeeds brilliantly. Individually, the essays reach high levels of scholarly excellence, but even more impressively, they come together to provide an exciting new perspective on Mexican history in both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
*Margaret Chowning, University of California, Berkeley*