Latino Pentecostals in America : faith and politics in action / Gast�on Espinosa.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014Description: xi, 505 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780674728875 (alk. paper)
  • 0674728874 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • BR 1644.5 .U6 E87 2014
Contents:
Holy Ghost and fire: Azusa Street and Mexican Pentecostal origins -- Victory is coming now: Mexican Pentecostals in Texas -- Their salvation may depend on us: missionary origins in Texas -- The gringos have control: Francisco Olaz�abal's reformation in the borderlands -- Pentecostal origins in the Southwest and the struggle for self-determination -- The challenges of freedom: Mexican American leadership in the Southwest -- We preach the truth: Azusa Street and Puerto Rican Pentecostal origins and expansion -- The "Puerto Rican problem": the struggle for integration, independence, and rebirth -- Spirit and power: Puerto Rican Pentecostalism in New York City -- Your daughters shall prophesy: the uphill struggle of women in ministry -- Righteousness and justice: faith-based action for social change -- Balancing the horizontal with the vertical: Latino growth, social views, and influence in national politics.
Summary: "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).
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Holy Ghost and fire: Azusa Street and Mexican Pentecostal origins -- Victory is coming now: Mexican Pentecostals in Texas -- Their salvation may depend on us: missionary origins in Texas -- The gringos have control: Francisco Olaz�abal's reformation in the borderlands -- Pentecostal origins in the Southwest and the struggle for self-determination -- The challenges of freedom: Mexican American leadership in the Southwest -- We preach the truth: Azusa Street and Puerto Rican Pentecostal origins and expansion -- The "Puerto Rican problem": the struggle for integration, independence, and rebirth -- Spirit and power: Puerto Rican Pentecostalism in New York City -- Your daughters shall prophesy: the uphill struggle of women in ministry -- Righteousness and justice: faith-based action for social change -- Balancing the horizontal with the vertical: Latino growth, social views, and influence in national politics.

"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).

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