Recognizing The Latino Resurgence In U.s. Religion: The Emmaus Paradigm (explorations - Contemporary Perspectives On Religion)

This book delivers a knockout blow to the old notion that Latinos and Latinas are just another immigrant group waiting to be assimilated. Taking as analogy the scriptural episode of Emmaus in which Jesus walked unrecognized alongside his disciples, the authors detail how after nearly a century of unrecognized presence, the nations more than 25 million Latinos and Latinas began, in 1967, to use religion as a major source of the social and symbolic capital to fortify their identity in American society. Ana Mara Daz-Stevens and Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo describe how this Latino Religious Resurgence has created a church-based model of multicultural pluralism that challenges the current trend of U.S. politics. }Emmaus is the biblical episode that recounts how the disciples, who had been unable to recognize the resurrected Jesus even as he traveled with them, finally come to know him as their Lord through his inspirational conversation. In this major new work exploring Latino religion, Ana Mara Daz-Stevens and Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo compare a century-old presence of Latinos and Latinas under the U.S. flag to the Emmaus account. They convincingly argue for a new paradigm that breaks with the conventional view of Latinos and Latinas as just another immigrant group waiting to be assimilated into the U.S. The authors suggest instead the concept of a colonized people who now are prepared to contribute their cultural and linguistic heritage to a multicultural and multilingual America.The first chapter provides an overview of the religious and demographic dynamics that have contributed a specifically Latino character to the practice of religion among the 25 million plus members of what will become the largest minority group in the U.S. in the twenty-first century. The next two chapters offer challenging new interpretations of tradition and colonialism, blending theory with multiple examples from historical and anthropological studies on Latinos and Latinas. The heart of the book is dedicated to exploring what the authors call the Latino Religious Resurgence, which took place between 1967 and 1982. Comparing this period to the Great Awakenings of Colonial America and the Risorgimento of nineteenth-century Italy, the authors describe a unique combination of social and political forces that stirred Latinos and Latinas nationally. Utilizing social science theories of social movement, symbolic capital, generational change, a new mentalit, and structuration, the authors explain why Latinos and Latinas, who had been in the U.S. all along, have only recently come to be recognized as major contributors to American religion. The final chapter paints an optimistic role for religion, casting it as a binding force in urban life and an important conduit for injecting moral values into the public realm.Offering an extensive bibliography of major works on Latino religion and contemporary social science theory, Recognizing the Latino Resurgence in U. S. Religion makes an important new contribution to the fields of sociology, religious studies, American history, and ethnic and Latino studies. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Dedication Contents List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Questions Survey Analysis of Latino Religion Positive Contributions Inclusion of Theology Tradition and the Diachronic-Synchronic Dilemma The Term "Latino" Census Data on Latinos Population Facts and Figures Latinos and the American Prospect The Contours of Latino Religious Belonging Americanization and Assimilation Race and Ethnicity Social Mobility and Denominational Affiliation Civil Religion Notes 2 Tradition The Burden of Temporality Social Location Social Location and the Political Process The Religious Imagination The Dynamics of Tradition The Sociohistoric Context The Latino Religious Tradition The Agricultural Cycle The Life Cycle Other Religions Within the Latino Tradition African Transculturation Freethinkers and Spiritism The U.S. Conquest The Impact of Migration The Matriarchal Core Notes 3 Invasions Colonialism and Religion Invasions and Transculturation Spanish Colonialism Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic Florida New Mexico Texas California Popular Catholicism in the Caribbean The Colonial Difference The U.S. Invasions Colonialism and the Demise of the Agricultural Economy Internal Colonialism Pious Colonialism U.S. Catholic Colonialism Native Clergy The Pentecostal Role in Colonialism The Consequence of Pious Colonialism Notes 4 Syzygy Movement to Cities The Latino Religious Resurgence Basic Characteristics of the Latino Religious Resurgence Religion and Social Change Generational Change The Mentalité of the Resurgence The Leitmotif of the Resurgence Catholicism's Cursillo Movement Syzygy Third Worldism Reies López Tijerina Antulio Parrilla Bonilla The Urban Revolts of 1967 César Chávez Resurgence Wildfire Generational Leadership Notes 5 Agenda Leadership of the Resurgence Virgilio Elizondo and Justo González Leadership Through Deroutinization Structuration The Argument of Representativity Cultural Idiosyncrasy Poverty as Oppression Democratization Cross-Validation PADRES The Encounters Theology in the Americas Weakness of the Institutions Protestant Leadership Women's Leadership The Encounter Results The Second Encounter Puerto Rican and Radical Politics Notes 6 Ledger The Irreversible Changes Latino Franchising The Lucerne Memorial and the First Encounter Document The Bottom Line for the Latino Catholic Church Social Forces of Cultural Affirmation Cross-Validation of Organizations as Social Capitalization Bases of Power: Religious Marketing Music: A Bonus Payoff Education, the Reliable Investment Theology as a Spin-Off Industry Catholic Downsizing Cultural Idiosyncrasy as a Write-Off New Movements and the Privatization of Religious Production Latino Pentecostals as a Growth Industry Structural Changes in Latino Pentecostalism Pentecostal Latinas The Bottom Line 7 Options Organizations and Multiple Identities Denominational Belonging and Multiple Identities Control of Organizations Cultural Citizenship as an Identity Latino Youth and Religious Schools Latino Youth and Religious Formation The Ensemble The Production of Symbolic Capital Social Capital Civilizational Difference Global Relations Notes Bibliography Index Emmaus is the biblical episode that recounts how the disciples, who had been unable to recognize the resurrected Jesus even as he traveled with them, finally come to know him as their Lord through his inspirational conversation. In this major new work exploring Latino religion, Ana María Díaz-Stevens and Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo compare a century-old presence of Latinos and Latinas under the U.S. flag to the Emmaus account. They convincingly argue for a new paradigm that breaks with the conventional view of Latinos and Latinas as just another immigrant group waiting to be assimilated into the U.S. The authors suggest instead the concept of a colonized people who now are prepared to contribute their cultural and linguistic heritage to a multicultural and multilingual America.The first chapter provides an overview of the religious and demographic dynamics that have contributed a specifically Latino character to the practice of religion among the 25 million plus members of what will become the largest minority group in the U.S. in the twenty-first century. The next two chapters offer challenging new interpretations of tradition and colonialism, blending theory with multiple examples from historical and anthropological studies on Latinos and Latinas. The heart of the book is dedicated to exploring what the authors call the Latino Religious Resurgence, which took place between 1967 and 1982. Comparing this period to the Great Awakenings of Colonial America and the Risorgimento of nineteenth-century Italy, the authors describe a unique combination of social and political forces that stirred Latinos and Latinas nationally. Utilizing social science theories of social movement, symbolic capital, generational change, a new mentalité, and structuration, the authors explain why Latinos and Latinas, who had been in the U.S. all along, have only recently come to be recognized as major contributors to American religion. The final chapter paints an optimistic role for religion, casting it as a binding force in urban life and an important conduit for injecting moral values into the public realm.Offering an extensive bibliography of major works on Latino religion and contemporary social science theory, Recognizing the Latino Resurgence in U.S. Religion makes an important new contribution to the fields of sociology, religious studies, American history, and ethnic and Latino studies. "This book delivers a knockout blow to the old notion that Latinos and Latinas are just another immigrant group waiting to be assimilated. Taking as analogy the scriptural episode of Emmaus in which Jesus walked unrecognized alongside his disciples, the authors detail how after nearly a century of unrecognized presence, the nation's more than 25 million Latinos and Latinas began, in 1967, to use religion as a major source of the social and symbolic capital to fortify their identity in American society. Ana Maria Diaz-Stevens and Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo describe how this Latino Religious Resurgence has created a church-based model of multicultural pluralism that challenges the current trend of U.S. politics."--BOOK JACKET