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The Political Spirituality of Cesar Chavez - Crossing Religious Borders (Paperback)
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The Political Spirituality of Cesar Chavez - Crossing Religious Borders (Paperback)
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"The Political Spirituality of Cesar Chavez: Crossing Religious
Borders" maps and challenges many of the mythologies that surround
the late iconic labor leader. Focusing on Chavez' own writings,
Leon argues that" La Causa" can be fruitfully understood as a
quasi-religious movement, based on Chavez's charismatic leadership,
which he modeled after Martin Luther King, Jr. and Gandhi. Chavez
recognized that spiritual prophecy, or political spirituality, was
the key to disrupting centuries old dehumanizing narratives that
conflated religion with race. Chavez's body became emblematic for
Chicano identity, and enfleshed a living revolution. While there is
much debate and truth-seeking around how he is remembered, through
investigating the leader's construction of his own public memory,
the author probes the meaning of the discrepancies. By refocusing
Chavez's life and beliefs into three broad movements--mythology,
prophecy, and religion--Leon brings us a moral and spiritual agent
to match the political leader.
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