Mexican American Religions de Gastón Espinosa

Mexican American Religions

Gastón Espinosa

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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IntroductionPart I History and Interpretations of Mexican American Religions1. History and Theory in the Study of Mexican American Religions / Gastón Espinosa; 2. Pious Colonialism: Assessing a Church Paradigm for Chicano Identity / Anthony M. Stevens-ArroyoPart II Mexican American Mystics and Prophets3. Sacred Order, Sacred Space: Reies López Tijerina and the Valle de Paz Community / Rudy V. Busto; 4. The Secularization and Sanctification of César Chávez / Stephen R. Lloyd-Moffett; 5. Religion and the Chicano Movement: Católicos Por La Raza / Mario T. GarcíaPart III Mexican American Popular Catholicism6. Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Politics of Cultural Interpretation / Socorro Castañeda-Liles; 7. Voces de Fe: Mexican American Altaristas in Texas / Kay Turner; 8. Los Pastores and the Gendered Politics of Location / Richard R. FloresPart IV Mexican American Religions and Literature9. The Religious Vision of Gloria Anzaldúa: Borderlands-La Frontera as a Shamanic Space / Davíd Carrasco and Roberto Lint Sagarena; 10. Voice and Vision in Chicana Religious Practice: The Literary Re-elaborations of Mary Helen Ponce, Denise Chávez, and Sandra Cisneros / Ellen McCrackenPart V Mexican American Religions and Healing 11. Brown Moses: Francisco Olazábal and Mexican American Pentecostal Healing in the Borderlands / Gastón Espinosa; 12. Soy una Curandera y Soy una Católica: The Poetics of a Mexican Healing Tradition / Luis D. LeónPart VI Mexican American Religions and Pop Culture13. Luis Valdezs La Pastorela: The Shepherds Play: Tradition, Hybridity, and Transformation / María Herrera-Sobek; 14. Hybrid Spiritualities and Chicana Altar-Based Art: The Work of Amalia Mesa-Bains / Laura E. Pérez; 15. Mexican Madonna: Selena and the Politics of Cultural Redemption / Gastón EspinosaConclusion: Reflections on Mexican American Religions and Culture

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This groundbreaking interdisciplinary exploration of Mexican American spirituality, activism, and culture will be a benchmark for all future studies on Chicano religions in the twenty-first century. I highly recommend it!Virgilio Elizondo, University of Notre DameThis excellent book pushes the field of religious studies forward by challenging it to consider Chicano religious studies as a rich and fruitful field of scholarly and intellectual examination. A must-read for anyone interested in U.S. Latino, Latin American, and American religions.David Maldonado Jr., Director, Center for the Study of Latino/a Christianity and Religions, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist UniversityThis thought-provoking and informative book provides a unique glimpse into the living reality of Mexican American religiosity. I expect it to be required reading for anyone interested in understanding religion in the United States.Justo L. González, Founding Director, Hispanic Theological InitiativeThe conversation about Latinos and religion will never be the same thanks to this splendid, visionary book. It captures who we are as a peoplediverse, yet on a shared spiritual quest that will have huge ramifications for Latinos and beyond.Demetria Martínez, author of Confessions of a Berlitz-Tape Chicana and the novel Mother Tongue

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"The conversation about Latinos and religion will never be the same thanks to this splendid, visionary book. It captures who we are as a people--diverse, yet on a shared spiritual quest that will have huge ramifications for Latinos and beyond."--Demetria Martinez, author of "Confessions of a Berlitz-Tape Chicana" and the novel "Mother Tongue"