A Future for the Latino Church

A Future for the Latino Church
Author: Daniel A. Rodriguez
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2011-05-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830868682

Daniel Rodriguez argues that effective Latino ministry and church planting is now centered in second-generation, English-dominant leadership and congregations. Based on his observation of cutting-edge Latino churches across the country, Rodriguez reports on how innovative congregations are ministering creatively to the next generations of Latinos.

Latino Catholicism

Latino Catholicism
Author: Timothy Matovina
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2014-10-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 069116357X

Discusses the growing population of Hispanic-Americans worshipping in the Catholic Church in the United States.

Apostles of Change

Apostles of Change
Author: Felipe Hinojosa
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2021-01-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1477321985

In the late 1960s, the American city found itself in steep decline. An urban crisis fueled by federal policy wreaked destruction and displacement on poor and working-class families. The urban drama included religious institutions, themselves undergoing fundamental change, that debated whether to stay in the city or move to the suburbs. Against the backdrop of the Black and Brown Power movements, which challenged economic inequality and white supremacy, young Latino radicals began occupying churches and disrupting services to compel church communities to join their protests against urban renewal, poverty, police brutality, and racism. Apostles of Change tells the story of these occupations and establishes their context within the urban crisis; relates the tensions they created; and articulates the activists' bold, new vision for the church and the world. Through case studies from Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, and Houston, Felipe Hinojosa reveals how Latino freedom movements frequently crossed boundaries between faith and politics and argues that understanding the history of these radical politics is essential to understanding the dynamic changes in Latino religious groups from the late 1960s to the early 1980s.

Latino Protestants in America

Latino Protestants in America
Author: Mark T. Mulder
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2017-03-09
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1442256559

Latino Protestantism is growing rapidly in the United States. Researchers estimate that by 2030 half of all Latinos in America will be Protestant. This remarkable growth is not just about numbers. The rise of Latino Protestants will impact the changing nature of American politics, economics, and religion. Latino Protestants in America takes readers inside the numbers to highlight the many reasons Latino Protestants are growing as well as the diversity of this group. The book brings together the best existing scholarship on this group with original research to offer a nuanced picture of Latino Protestants in America, from worship practices to political engagement. The narrative helps readers move beyond misconceptions about Latino religion and offers a window into the diverse ways that religion plays out in real life. Latino Protestants in America is an essential resource for anyone interested in the beliefs and practices of this group, as well as the implications for its growth and areas for further study.

Mexican Americans and the Catholic Church, 1900-1965

Mexican Americans and the Catholic Church, 1900-1965
Author: Jay P. Dolan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 396
Release: 1997
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780268014285

Within the American Catholic Church the Mexican American legacy is the longest, as is their struggle for full acceptance in the institutional church. In this volume three historians examine religious history, focusing on Mexican American faith communities. Originally published in 1994.

Latino Pentecostals in America

Latino Pentecostals in America
Author: Gastón Espinosa
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 520
Release: 2014-08-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674728874

"Seeks to provide a history of the Latino AG [Assemblies of God] that can also serve as a case study and window into the larger Latino Pentecostal, Evangelical, and Protestant movements along with the changing flow of North American religious history." (page 2).

Brown Church

Brown Church
Author: Robert Chao Romero
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2020-05-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830853952

The Latina/o culture and identity have long been shaped by their challenges to the religious, socio-economic, and political status quo. Robert Chao Romero explores the "Brown Church" and how this movement appeals to the vision for redemption that includes not only heavenly promises but also the transformation of our lives and the world.

Catholic Peacebuilding and Mining

Catholic Peacebuilding and Mining
Author: Caesar A. Montevecchio
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2022-01-31
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1000529150

This book explores the role of Catholic peacebuilding in addressing the global mining industry. Mining is intimately linked to issues of conflict, human rights, sustainable development, governance, and environmental justice. As an institution of significant scope and scale with a large network of actors at all levels and substantial theoretical and ethical resources, the Catholic Church is well positioned to acknowledge the essential role of mining, while challenging unethical and harmful practices, and promoting integral peace, development, and ecology. Drawing together theology, ethics, and praxis, the volume reflects the diversity of Catholic action on mining and the importance of an integrated approach. It includes contributions by an international and interdisciplinary range of scholars and practitioners. They examine Catholic action on mining in El Salvador, Peru, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the Philippines. They also address general issues of corporate social responsibility, human rights, development, ecology, and peacebuilding. The book will be of interest to scholars of theology, social ethics, and Catholic studies as well as those specializing in development, ecology, human rights, and peace studies.

Being Latino in Christ

Being Latino in Christ
Author: Orlando Crespo
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2003-11-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780830823741

Exploring what the Bible says about ethnic identity and drawing on his own journey to self-understanding, Orlando Crespo helps you discover for yourself what it means to be Latino, American--and, most importantly, a disciple of Christ.