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Recognizing The Latino Resurgence In U.s. Religion - The Emmaus Paradigm (Paperback)
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Recognizing The Latino Resurgence In U.s. Religion - The Emmaus Paradigm (Paperback)
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Emmaus is the biblical episode that recounts how the disciples, who
had been unable to recognize the resurrected Jesus even as he
traveled with them, finally come to know him as their Lord through
his inspirational conversation. In this major new work exploring
Latino religion, Ana Maria Diaz-Stevens and Anthony M.
Stevens-Arroyo compare a century-old presence of Latinos and
Latinas under the U.S. flag to the Emmaus account. They
convincingly argue for a new paradigm that breaks with the
conventional view of Latinos and Latinas as just another immigrant
group waiting to be assimilated into the U.S. The authors suggest
instead the concept of a colonized people who now are prepared to
contribute their cultural and linguistic heritage to a
multicultural and multilingual America.The first chapter provides
an overview of the religious and demographic dynamics that have
contributed a specifically Latino character to the practice of
religion among the 25 million plus members of what will become the
largest minority group in the U.S. in the twenty-first century. The
next two chapters offer challenging new interpretations of
tradition and colonialism, blending theory with multiple examples
from historical and anthropological studies on Latinos and Latinas.
The heart of the book is dedicated to exploring what the authors
call the Latino Religious Resurgence, which took place between 1967
and 1982. Comparing this period to the Great Awakenings of Colonial
America and the "Risorgimento" of nineteenth-century Italy, the
authors describe a unique combination of social and political
forces that stirred Latinos and Latinas nationally. Utilizing
social science theories of social movement, symbolic capital,
generational change, a new "mentalite, " and structuration, the
authors explain why Latinos and Latinas, who had been in the U.S.
all along, have only recently come to be recognized as major
contributors to American religion. The final chapter paints an
optimistic role for religion, casting it as a binding force in
urban life and an important conduit for injecting moral values into
the public realm.Offering an extensive bibliography of major works
on Latino religion and contemporary social science theory,
"Recognizing the Latino Resurgence in U.S. Religion" makes an
important new contribution to the fields of sociology, religious
studies, American history, and ethnic and Latino studies.
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