Faith and Power: Latino Religious Politics Since 1945

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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 postWorld 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. Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Introduction: Latino Religious Politics: Mapping the Field Part I. Place and Politics 1. Catholics, the State, and Latino Advocacy in World War II 2. Chicago’s Catholic Archdiocese and the Challenges of Serving a Multiethnic Latino Population 3. Pan-Latino Placemaking and Housing Dynamics: St. Joseph the Worker in Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1956–2000 4. Latina/o Mormons: Spanish-Speaking Saints Negotiating Identity in the Deseret Part II. Freedom Movements 5. Pentecostalism’s Instrumental Faith and Alternative Power: César Chávez and Reies López Tijerina among Pentecostal Farmworkers, 1954–1956 6. Lived Religion in East Harlem: The New York Young Lords Occupy First Spanish—The People’s Church 7. From the Fields to the Cities: The Rise of Latina/o Religious Politics in the Civil Rights Era 8. The Legacy of Las Hermanas for Latina/o Religious Politics in the Twenty-First Century Part III. Immigrant Transformations 9. Political Fellowship and the Sanctuary Movement: Central American Refugees and Practices of Religiopolitical Accompaniment, 1982–1990 10. “The Needs of Migrant People”: Catholics and Immigrants’ Rights in the Twentieth Century 11. The Spiritual Is Political: The Pilsen Via Crucis as a Path to Resistance 12. “Two Churches in One Building”: Holy Cross Catholic Church, Latino Immigration, and New Geographies of Resistance, 1988–1997 Afterword Acknowledgments Suggested Readings About the Editors About the Contributors Index