List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Negotiating a Place for Religion in a Developing Economy: Catholicism in the Golden Age
2. Catholicism at Its Wit's End: Priests, Madams, and Sex Workers
3. Complex Religious Expression without Redemption: Catholicism, Syncretism, and Judaism
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Rebecca Janzen is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina. She is the author of The National Body in Mexican Literature: Collective Challenges to Biopolitical Control and Liminal Sovereignty: Mennonites and Mormons in Mexican Culture, also published by SUNY Press.