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Mexican American Religions - Spirituality, Activism, and Culture (Paperback)
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Mexican American Religions - Spirituality, Activism, and Culture (Paperback)
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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 Lopez Tijerina, Cesar Chavez's
faith-based activism, and the Los Angeles-based Catolicos 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 Anzaldua'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,
David Carrasco, Socorro Castaneda-Liles, Gaston Espinosa, Richard
R. Flores, Mario T. Garcia, Maria Herrera-Sobek, Luis D. Leon,
Ellen McCracken, Stephen R. Lloyd-Moffett, Laura E. Perez, Roberto
Lint Saragena, Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo, Kay Turner
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