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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819247503321

Titolo

Recovering Hispanic religious thought and practice of the United States / / edited by Nicolás Kanellos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle, U.K., : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2007

ISBN

1-4438-1086-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (220 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KanellosNicolás

Disciplina

277.3/008968

Soggetti

Hispanic Americans - Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-212).

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Backgrounds for Hispanic religious and secular thought -- pt. II. Recovering literary and folkloric texts -- pt. III. Testimonios -- pt. IV. Bibliography.

Sommario/riassunto

The primary role played by religion in the development of the Spanish nation in the Iberian Peninsula and its subsequent role in the Spanish conquest and colonization of the Americas has been well studied. Similarly, Hispanics around the world and in the United States have been characterized in scholarship and popular opinion by the dimensions of their predominant Catholic faith. To date, neither their diversity of faith nor their ethnic and racial diversity have been adequately addressed, ...