Latino Religions and Civic Activism in the United States

About this book

The Latino community in the United States is commonly stereotyped as Roman Catholic and politically passive. Latino Religions and Civic Activism in the United States challenges and revises these stereotypes by demonstrating the critical influence of Latino Catholics Evangelicals Pentecostals Mainline Protestants and others on political civic and social engagement in the United States and Puerto Rico. It also revises the ostensibly secular narrative of Latino history and politics. The authors analyze the critical role that institutional popular and civil religion have played in Latino activism. This timely book offers readers a new framework by which to understand and to interpret the central importance of religious symbols rhetoric ideology world-views and leaders to Latino religions and politics over the past 150 years.