PADRES : the national Chicano priest movement / Richard Edward Martinez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martinez, Richard Edward, 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Padres Asociados para Derechos Religiosos, Educativos y Sociales--History.

Padres Asociados para Derechos Religiosos, Educativos y Sociales.

Catholic Church--United States--Clergy--Political activity--History--20th century.

Catholic Church.

Civil rights workers--United States--History--20th century.

Civil rights workers.

Political activists--United States--History--20th century.

Political activists.

Priests--United States--Political activity--History--20th century.

Priests.

Mexican Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.

Mexican Americans.

Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements.

Mexican Americans--Social conditions--20th century.

Church and social problems--Catholic Church--History--20th century.

Church and social problems.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (206 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo to the 1960s, Mexican American Catholics experienced racism and discrimination within the U.S. Catholic church, as white priests and bishops maintained a racial divide in all areas of the church's ministry. To oppose this religious apartheid and challenge the church to minister fairly to all of its faithful, a group of Chicano priests formed PADRES (Padres Asociados para Derechos Religiosos, Educativos y Sociales, or Priests Associated for Religious, Educational, and Social Rights) in 1969. Over the next twenty years of its existence, PADRES became a powerful force for change within the Catholic church and for social justice within American society. This book offers the first history of the founding, activism, victories, and defeats of PADRES. At the heart of the book are oral history interviews with the founders of PADRES, who describe how their ministries in poor Mexican American parishes, as well as their own experiences of racism and discrimination within and outside the church, galvanized them into starting and sustaining the movement. Richard Martínez traces the ways in which PADRES was inspired by the Chicano movement and other civil rights struggles of the 1960s and also probes its linkages with liberation theology in Latin America. He uses a combination of social movement theory and organizational theory to explain why the group emerged, flourished, and eventually disbanded in 1989.

Contents:

Introduction

The Mexican American Catholic experience

The origins of PADRES

PADRES : in the beginning

PADRES insurgency

Social activism and its cost

Theory and analysis : the emergence of PADRES

Appendix : methodology.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 178-191) and index.

ISBN:

0-292-79704-4

OCLC:

607671974