Contributors
- Contributors
Adrian A. Bantjes is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Wyoming. He is the author of As If Jesus Walked On Earth: Cardenismo, Sonora, and the Mexican Revolution, and has published a series of essays on popular religion, anticlericalism, defanaticization, and iconoclasm during the Mexican Revolution. He is currently developing a project on popular religion in post-Vatican II Mexico and Nicaragua.
Ben Fallaw teaches Latin American Studies and History at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. His first book, Cárdenas Compromised: The Failure of Reform in Yucatan came out in 2001, and he co-edited the collection Heroes and Hero Cults in Latin America. Currently he is completing a study of political relations between Mexican Catholics and the revolutionary state from the end of the Cristero War to 1940. His articles have appeared in Latin American Research Review, Hispanic American Historical Review, Ethnohistory, and Journal of Latin American Anthropology.
Robert Curley is a Professor of History at the Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico. He received his Ph.D. from The University of Chicago. He has written widely on religion and revolution in twentieth-century Mexico, including The First Encounter: Catholic Politics in Revolutionary Jalisco, 1917–19, Matthew Butler, ed. and Faith and Impiety in Revolutionary Mexico (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007). This article draws on research he conducted for his doctoral dissertation, Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Catholics and the Political Sphere in Revolutionary Mexico. Currently he is researching comparative public Catholicism.
Matthew Butler is Associate Professor of Modern Mexican History at the University of Texas at Austin. He previously lectured at Queen’s University Belfast, United Kingdom and obtained his doctorate from the University of Bristol in 2000. His main research interests focus on the religious history of modern, especially post-revolutionary, Mexico. At present he is writing a history of pro-revolutionary Catholicism in 1920s Mexico and researching a microhistory of the parish clergy during the Mexican Revolution. His publications include Popular Piety and Political Identity in Mexico’s Cristero Rebellion: Michoacán, 1927–1929 (Oxford: British Academy/Oxford University Press, 2004) and, as editor, Faith and Impiety in Revolutionary Mexico (New York: Palgrave, 2007). [End Page v]
Benjamin Smith is an Assistant Professor of History at Michigan State University. He studied his doctoral degree at the University of Cambridge. His first monograph, Pistoleros and Popular Movements: The Politics of State Formation in Postrevolutionary Oaxaca, will be published by the University of Nebraska Press in July 2009. His articles have appeared in Journal of Latin American Studies, Bulletin of Latin American Research, Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, and multiple edited volumes. He is currently working on a study of the relationship between religion, politics, and race in the Mixteca from colonial times to the present day.
Roberto J. Blancarte is a Professor-researcher and Dean of the Centro de Estudios Sociológicos at El Colegio de México. He received his Ph.D. from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, France. Currently he is researching on “laicity” and secularization in Mexico and Latin America. His most recent books are, as editor, Los retos de la laicidad y la secularización en el mundo contemporáneo (México, D. F.: El Colegio de México, 2008), Sexo, religión y democracia (México, D. F.: Editorial Planeta, 2008), and El Estado laico. Col. Para entender (México, D. F.: Nostra ediciones, 2008). [End Page vi]
