Mexican American Religions : Spirituality, Activism, and Culture PDF
Edited by Espinosa Gaston Espinosa, Garcia Mario T. Garcia
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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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- Pages:454 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:08/07/2008
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- ISBN:9780822388951
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:454 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:08/07/2008
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- ISBN:9780822388951