Mexican American religions : spirituality, activism, and culture / / edited by Gaston Espinosa and Mario T. Garcia.

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Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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Physical Description:x, 443 p. :; ill.
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Table of Contents:
  • History and interpretations of Mexican American religions
  • History and theory in the study of Mexican American religions / Gaston Espinosa
  • Pious colonialism : assessing a church paradigm for Chicano identity / Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo
  • Mexican American mystics and prophets
  • Sacred order, sacred space : Reies Lpez Tijerina and the Valle de Paz community / Rudy V. Busto
  • The secularization and sanctification of Cosar Chavez / Stephen R. Lloyd-Moffett
  • Religion and the Chicano Movement : Catlicos por la raza / Mario T. Garca
  • Mexican American popular Catholicism
  • Our Lady of Guadalupe and the politics of cultural interpretation / Socorro Castaeda-Liles
  • Voces de Fe : Mexican American altaristas in Texas / Kay Turner
  • Los pastores and the gendered politics of location / Richard R. Flores
  • Mexican American religions and literature
  • The religious vision of Gloria Anzalda : borderlands, la frontera as a shamanic space / Davd Carrasco and Roberto Lint Sagarena
  • Voice and vision in Chicana religious practice : the literary re-elaborations of Mary Helen Ponce, Denise Chavez, and Sandra Cisneros / Ellen McCracken
  • Mexican American religions and healing
  • Brown Moses : Francisco Olazbal and Mexican American Pentecostal healing in the Borderlands / Gastn Espinosa
  • "Soy una curandera y soy una catlica" : the poetics of a Mexican healing tradition / Luis D. Len
  • Mexican American religions and pop culture
  • Luis Valdez's la pastorela : "the Shepherds' play" : tradition, hybridity, and transformation / Mara Herrera-Sobek
  • Hybrid spiritualities and Chicana altar-based art : the work of Amalia Mesa-Bains / Laura E. Prez
  • Mexican Madonna : Selena and the politics of cultural redemption / Gaston Espinosa
  • Conclusion: Reflections on Mexican American religions and culture.