Latino Religions and Civic Activism in the United States Contributor(s): Espinosa, Gaston (Editor), Elizondo, Virgilio (Editor), Miranda, Jesse (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0195162285 ISBN-13: 9780195162288 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $53.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2005 Annotation: The Latino community in the United States is commonly stereotyped as Roman Catholic and politically passive. Latino Religions and Civic Activism in the United States challenges and revises these stereotypes by demonstrating the critical influence of Latino Catholics, Evangelicals, Pentecostals, Mainline Protestants, and others on political, civic, and social engagement in the United States and Puerto Rico. It also revises the ostensibly secular narrative of Latino history and politics. The authors analyze the critical role that institutional, popular, and civil religion have played in Latino activism. This timely book offers readers a new framework by which to understand and to interpret the central importance of religious symbols, rhetoric, ideology, world-views, and leaders to Latino religions and politics over the past 150 years. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christian Living - Social Issues - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Hispanic American Studies - Religion | Christianity - History |
Dewey: 261.808 |
LCCN: 2004008801 |
Physical Information: 0.65" H x 6.44" W x 9.2" (1.14 lbs) 368 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic - Religious Orientation - Christian |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The Latino community in the United States is commonly stereotyped as Roman Catholic and politically passive. Latino Religions and Civic Activism in the United States challenges and revises these stereotypes by demonstrating the critical influence of Latino Catholics, Evangelicals, Pentecostals, Mainline Protestants, and others on political, civic, and social engagement in the United States and Puerto Rico. It also revises the ostensibly secular narrative of Latino history and politics. The authors analyze the critical role that institutional, popular, and civil religion have played in Latino activism. This timely book offers readers a new framework by which to understand and to interpret the central importance of religious symbols, rhetoric, ideology, world-views, and leaders to Latino religions and politics over the past 150 years. |