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Mexican American Religions - Spirituality, Activism, and Culture

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Informationen zum Autor Gastón Espinosa is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Claremont McKenna College. His books include Latino Religions and Civic Activism in the United States and Rethinking Latino Religions and Identity.Mario T. García is Professor of History and Chicano Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His books include Padre: The Life and Spiritual Journey of Father Virgil Cordano; Luis Leal: An Auto/Biography; and The Gospel of César Chávez. Klappentext This collection presents a rich, multidisciplinary inquiry into the role of religion in the Mexican American community. Breaking new ground by analyzing the influence of religion on Mexican American literature, art, activism, and popular culture, it makes the case for the establishment of Mexican American religious studies as a distinct, recognized field of scholarly inquiry. Scholars of religion, Latin American, and Chicano/a studies as well as of sociology, anthropology, and literary and performance studies, address several broad themes. Taking on questions of history and interpretation, they examine the origins of Mexican American religious studies and Mario Barrera's theory of internal colonialism. In discussions of the utopian community founded by the preacher and activist Reies López Tijerina, César Chávez's faith-based activism, and the Los Angeles-based Católicos Por La Raza movement of the late 1960s, other contributors focus on mystics and prophets. Still others illuminate popular Catholicism by looking at Our Lady of Guadalupe, home altars, and Los Pastores dramas (nativity plays) as vehicles for personal, social, and political empowerment.Turning to literature, contributors consider Gloria Anzaldúa's view of the borderlands as a mystic vision and the ways that Chicana writers invoke religious symbols and rhetoric to articulate a moral vision highlighting social injustice. They investigate the role of healing, looking at it in relation to both the Latino Pentecostal movement and the practice of the curanderismo tradition in East Los Angeles. Delving into to popular culture, they reflect on Luis Valdez's video drama La Pastorela: "The Shepherds' Play," the spirituality of Chicana art, and the religious overtones of the reverence for the slain Tejana music star Selena. This volume signals the vibrancy and diversity of the practices, arts, traditions, and spiritualities that reflect and inform Mexican American religion.Contributors: Rudy V. Busto, Davíd Carrasco, Socorro Castañeda-Liles, Gastón Espinosa, Richard R. Flores, Mario T. García, María Herrera-Sobek, Luís D. León, Ellen McCracken, Stephen R. Lloyd-Moffett, Laura E. Pérez, Roberto Lint Saragena, Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo, Kay Turner Zusammenfassung A multidisciplinary collection of essays examining the influence of Mexican American religion on Mexican American literature! art! politics! and popular culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface ix Introduction 1 I. History and Interpretations of Mexican American Religions 1. History and Theory in the Study of Mexican American Religions / Gaston Espinosa 17 2. Pious Colonialism: Assessing a Church Paradigm for Chicano Identity / Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo 57 II. Mexican American Mystics and Prophets 3. Sacred Order, Sacred Space: Reies Lopez Tijerina and the Valle de Paz Community / Rudy V. Busto 85 4. Holy Activist, Secular Saint: Religion and the Social Activism of Cesar Chavez / Stephen R. Lloyrd-Moffett 106 5. Religion and the Chicano Movement: Catolicos Por La Raza / Mario T. Garcia 125 III. Mexican American Popular Catholicism 6. Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Politics of Cultural Interpretation / Socorro Castaneda-Liles 153 7. Voces de Fe: Mexican American Altaristas in Texas / Kay Turner 180 8. Los Pastores and the Gendered Politics of Location / Richard R. Flores 206 9. The Religious Vision of Gloria Anzaldua: Borderlands/La Frontera as a Shamanic Space / David Carrasco and Rob...

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Authors Gaston Garcia Espinosa
Assisted by Gaston Espinosa (Editor), Gastón Espinosa (Editor), Mario T. Garcia (Editor), Mario T García (Editor)
Publisher Duke University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 08.07.2008
 
EAN 9780822341192
ISBN 978-0-8223-4119-2
No. of pages 456
Dimensions 152 mm x 235 mm x 32 mm
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity
Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography
Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works
Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore

Mexiko, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Religion, allgemein

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