About The American Academy of Religion is pleased to announce the 2026 recipients of the Best First Book in Religious Studies; the Religion and the Arts Book Award; the Best Work in Textual or Histori...

Mexican Christianity is not primarily the creation of Spanish missionaries but of Indigenous ancestors who labored across generations to render an authentic faith from an imposed religion. By Jennifer...

During the persecutions that followed the Mexican Revolution of 1917, priests were executed by firing squad. Ordinary Catholics, even teenagers, were imprisoned, tortured and murdered.

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Tamales on the Fourth of July: The Transnational Parish of Coeneo, Michoacán - Volume 19 Issue 2

The guest editors of Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos’s special issue on Catholic visual culture discuss how images have shaped religious memory, political activism, and debates over identity in Mex...

Following the Mexican Revolution of 1910, Mexico City’s upper-class laywomen were at the helm of a formidable religious movement that strove to counter sta...