Faith and Power: Latino Religious Politics Since 1945 ISBN: 9781479804542 Platform/Publisher: Oxford Academic / NYU Press Digital rights:Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: Religious Studies;
Illuminates how religion has shaped Latino politics and community building
Too often religious politics are considered peripheral to social movements, not central to them. Faith and Power: Latino Religious Politics Since 1945 seeks to correct this misinterpretation, focusing on the post-World War II era. It shows that the religious politics of this period were central to secular community-building and resistance efforts.
The volume traces the interplay between Latino religions and a variety of pivotal movements, from the farm worker movement to the sanctuary movement, offering breadth and nuance to this history. This illuminates how broader currents involving immigration, refugee policies, de-industrialization, the rise of the religious left and right, and the Chicana/o, immigrant, and Puerto Rican civil rights movements helped to give rise to political engagement among Latino religious actors. By addressing both the influence of these larger trends on religious movements and how the religious movements in turn helped to shape larger political currents, the volume offers a compelling look at the twentieth-century struggle for justice.
Felipe Hinojosa (Editor) Felipe Hinojosa is Baylor University's Jackson Family Chair in Latin America. He is the author of two books, including the award-winning Latino Mennonites: Civil Rights, Faith, and Evangelical Culture (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014), and coeditor of our Faith and Power: Latino Religious Politics Since 1945 (2022).
Maggie Elmore (Editor) Maggie Elmore is Assistant Professor of History at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas.
Sergio M. González (Editor) Sergio M. González is Assistant Professor of History in the Departments of History and Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Marquette University. He is the author of Mexicans in Wisconsin and the co-editor of Faith and Power: Latino Religious Politics Since 1945 with Felipe Hinojosa and Maggie Elmore.
