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2021 Finalist Raul Yzaguirre Best Political/Current Affairs Book,
International Latino Book Awards Winner of the Texas Association of
Chicanos in Higher Education Inaugural Book Award Unraveling the
intertwined histories of Latino radicalism and religion in urban
America, this book examines how Latino activists transformed
churches into staging grounds for protest against urban renewal and
displacement. In the late 1960s, the American city found itself in
steep decline. An urban crisis fueled by federal policy wreaked
destruction and displacement on poor and working-class families.
The urban drama included religious institutions, themselves
undergoing fundamental change, that debated whether to stay in the
city or move to the suburbs. Against the backdrop of the Black and
Brown Power movements, which challenged economic inequality and
white supremacy, young Latino radicals began occupying churches and
disrupting services to compel church communities to join their
protests against urban renewal, poverty, police brutality, and
racism. Apostles of Change tells the story of these occupations and
establishes their context within the urban crisis; relates the
tensions they created; and articulates the activists' bold, new
vision for the church and the world. Through case studies from
Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, and Houston, Felipe Hinojosa
reveals how Latino freedom movements frequently crossed boundaries
between faith and politics and argues that understanding the
history of these radical politics is essential to understanding the
dynamic changes in Latino religious groups from the late 1960s to
the early 1980s.
Illuminates how religion has shaped Latino politics and community
building Too often religious politics are considered peripheral to
social movements, not central to them. Faith and Power: Latino
Religious Politics Since 1945 seeks to correct this
misinterpretation, focusing on the post-World War II era. It shows
that the religious politics of this period were central to secular
community-building and resistance efforts. The volume traces the
interplay between Latino religions and a variety of pivotal
movements, from the farm worker movement to the sanctuary movement,
offering breadth and nuance to this history. This illuminates how
broader currents involving immigration, refugee policies,
de-industrialization, the rise of the religious left and right, and
the Chicana/o, immigrant, and Puerto Rican civil rights movements
helped to give rise to political engagement among Latino religious
actors. By addressing both the influence of these larger trends on
religious movements and how the religious movements in turn helped
to shape larger political currents, the volume offers a compelling
look at the twentieth-century struggle for justice.
2021 Finalist Raul Yzaguirre Best Political/Current Affairs Book,
International Latino Book Awards Winner of the Texas Association of
Chicanos in Higher Education Inaugural Book Award Unraveling the
intertwined histories of Latino radicalism and religion in urban
America, this book examines how Latino activists transformed
churches into staging grounds for protest against urban renewal and
displacement. In the late 1960s, the American city found itself in
steep decline. An urban crisis fueled by federal policy wreaked
destruction and displacement on poor and working-class families.
The urban drama included religious institutions, themselves
undergoing fundamental change, that debated whether to stay in the
city or move to the suburbs. Against the backdrop of the Black and
Brown Power movements, which challenged economic inequality and
white supremacy, young Latino radicals began occupying churches and
disrupting services to compel church communities to join their
protests against urban renewal, poverty, police brutality, and
racism. Apostles of Change tells the story of these occupations and
establishes their context within the urban crisis; relates the
tensions they created; and articulates the activists' bold, new
vision for the church and the world. Through case studies from
Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, and Houston, Felipe Hinojosa
reveals how Latino freedom movements frequently crossed boundaries
between faith and politics and argues that understanding the
history of these radical politics is essential to understanding the
dynamic changes in Latino religious groups from the late 1960s to
the early 1980s.
Illuminates how religion has shaped Latino politics and community
building Too often religious politics are considered peripheral to
social movements, not central to them. Faith and Power: Latino
Religious Politics Since 1945 seeks to correct this
misinterpretation, focusing on the post-World War II era. It shows
that the religious politics of this period were central to secular
community-building and resistance efforts. The volume traces the
interplay between Latino religions and a variety of pivotal
movements, from the farm worker movement to the sanctuary movement,
offering breadth and nuance to this history. This illuminates how
broader currents involving immigration, refugee policies,
de-industrialization, the rise of the religious left and right, and
the Chicana/o, immigrant, and Puerto Rican civil rights movements
helped to give rise to political engagement among Latino religious
actors. By addressing both the influence of these larger trends on
religious movements and how the religious movements in turn helped
to shape larger political currents, the volume offers a compelling
look at the twentieth-century struggle for justice.
Felipe Hinojosa's parents first encountered Mennonite families as
migrant workers in the tomato fields of northwestern Ohio. What
started as mutual admiration quickly evolved into a relationship
that strengthened over the years and eventually led to his parents
founding a Mennonite Church in South Texas. Throughout his
upbringing as a Mexican American evangelico, Hinojosa was faced
with questions not only about his own religion but also about
broader issues of Latino evangelicalism, identity, and civil rights
politics. Latino Mennonites offers the first historical analysis of
the changing relationship between religion and ethnicity among
Latino Mennonites. Drawing heavily on primary sources in Spanish,
such as newspapers and oral history interviews, Hinojosa traces the
rise of the Latino presence within the Mennonite Church from the
origins of Mennonite missions in Latino communities in Chicago,
South Texas, Puerto Rico, and New York City, to the conflicted
relationship between the Mennonite Church and the California
farmworker movements, and finally to the rise of Latino evangelical
politics. He also analyzes how the politics of the Chicano, Puerto
Rican, and black freedom struggles of the 1960s and 1970s civil
rights movements captured the imagination of Mennonite leaders who
belonged to a church known more for rural and peaceful agrarian
life than for social protest. Whether in terms of religious faith
and identity, race, immigrant rights, or sexuality, the politics of
belonging has historically presented both challenges and
possibilities for Latino evangelicals in the religious landscapes
of twentieth-century America. In Latino Mennonites, Hinojosa has
interwoven church history with social history to explore dimensions
of identity in Latino Mennonite communities and to create a new way
of thinking about the history of American evangelicalism.
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