Latino Religions and Civic Activism in the United States

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Gastón Espinosa, Virgilio P. Elizondo, Jesse Miranda
Oxford University Press, 2005 - 350 pàgines
The Latino community in the United States is commonly stereotyped as Roman Catholic and politically passive. Latino Religions and Civic Activism in the United States challenges and revises these stereotypes by demonstrating the critical influence of Latino Catholics, Evangelicals, Pentecostals, Mainline Protestants, and others on political, civic, and social engagement in the United States and Puerto Rico. It also revises the ostensibly secular narrative of Latino history and politics. The authors analyze the critical role that institutional, popular, and civil religion have played in Latino activism. This timely book offers readers a new framework by which to understand and to interpret the central importance of religious symbols, rhetoric, ideology, world-views, and leaders to Latino religions and politics over the past 150 years.
 

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US Latino Religions and FaithBased Political Civic and Social Action
3
Historical Struggles
17
Contemporary Struggles
175
Assessing and Interpreting 150 Years of Latino FaithBased Civic Activism
307
Chronology
315
Bibliography
323
Index
341
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