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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824907103321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, : Duke University Press, 2008

ISBN

1-283-02272-9

9786613022721

0-8223-8895-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (455 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

EspinosaGaston

GarciaMario T

Disciplina

270.089/6872073

270.0896872073

Soggetti

Mexican 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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

A multidisciplinary collection of essays examining the influence of Mexican American religion on Mexican American literature, art, politics, and popular culture.