Latino Religions And Civic Activism In The United States

Latino Religions and Civic Activism in the United States challenges and revises the stereotypes that all Latinos are Roman Catholic and politically passive by demonstrating the critical influence of Latino Catholic, Pentecostal, Evangelical, Mainline Protestant, and other popular, institutional, and civil religious expressions on political, civic, and social action in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. It also demonstrates the central importance of religious symbols, rhetoric, ideology, worldviews, and leaders in Latino religions and politics. Book jacket.

Gaston Espinosa is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Claremont McKenna College and past project manager of the Hispanic Churches in American Public Life research project. Virgilio Elizondo is Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Notre Dame, co-principal investigator of the Hispanic Churches in American Public Life research project, and co-founder of the Mexican American Cultural Center in San Antonio, Texas. Jesse Miranda is Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Urban Studies and Ethnic Leadership at Vanguard University, co-principal investigator of the Hispanic Churches in American Public Life research project, and founder and president of the Alianza de Ministerios Evangelicos Nacionales (AMEN).