Mexican American religions
Subtitle: spirituality, activism, and culture
By: edited by Gastón Espinosa and Mario T. García.
Contributors: Espinosa, Gastón.; García, Mario T.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 443
ISBN-13: 9780822340980; 9780822341192
Subjects: Mexican Americans -- Religion
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-428) and index.
Table of contents: title: History and interpretations of Mexican American religions; title: History and theory in the study of Mexican American religions / Gastón Espinosa; title: Pious colonialism : assessing a church paradigm for Chicano identity / Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo; title: Mexican American mystics and prophets; title: Sacred order, sacred space : Reies López Tijerina and the Valle de Paz community / Rudy V. Busto; title: Holy activist, secular saint : religion and the social activism of César Chávez / Stephen R. Lloyd-Moffett; title: Religion and the Chicano movement : Católicos por la raza / Mario T. García; title: Mexican American popular Catholicism; title: Our Lady of Guadalupe and the politics of cultural interpretation / Socorro Castañeda-Liles; title: Voces de Fe : Mexican American altaristas in Texas / Kay Turner; title: Los pastores and the gendered politics of location / Richard R. Flores; title: Mexican American religions and literature; title: The religious vision of Gloria Anzaldúa : Borderlands/La frontera as a shamanic space / Davíd Carrasco and Roberto Lint Sagarena; title: Voice and vision in Chicana religious practice : the literary re-elaborations of Mary Helen Ponce, Denise Chávez, and Sandra Cisneros / Ellen McCracken; title: Mexican American religions and healing; title: Brown Moses : Francisco Olazábal and Mexican American Pentecostal healing in the Borderlands / Gastón Espinosa; title: Borderlands bodies and souls : Mexican religious healing practices in East L.A. / Luis D. León; title: Mexican American religions and pop culture; title: Luis Valdez's La pastorela: "the shepherds' play" : tradition, hybridity, and transformation / María Herrera-Sobek; title: Hybrid spiritualities and Chicana altar-based art : the work of Amalia Mesa-Bains / Laura E. Pérez; title: Mexican Madonna : Selena and the politics of cultural redemption / Gastón Espinosa; title: Conclusion: Reflections on Mexican American religions and culture.