Latine Lived Religions and Religious Identities in the United States : ¡Presente!.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Torre, Miguel A. De La.

Series:

Latine Religion, Identity, and Culture Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intersectionality (Sociology).

Identification (Religion).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (303 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2026.

Summary:

Surveys the intersectionality of the U.S. Latine religious experiences and different cultural signifiers to show what it means to be a religious and/or spiritual Latine in the U.S.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Series Introduction

Introduction: How We Got Here

A Pope in the Borderlands

Latine: In-between and Presente

Presente and Lived Religions

How We Got Here: Latine, Lived Religions, and Presente

1 What's in a Name?

2 Latine Jewish Identity, Religious Life, and Transnational Belonging in the United States

Jewish Migration to Latin America

Jewish Communities Across Latin America

Argentina

Mexico

Venezuela

Cuba

Latin American Jews in the United States

Religious Life and Cultural Practice in the United States

Panethnicity and Identity Formation

Race, Racialization, and the Boundaries of Belonging

Transnational Ties and Diasporic Continuity

Institutional Inclusion and the Struggle for Recognition

Redefining Jewishness: Latine Jews and the American Jewish Future

Intergenerational Change and the Future of Latine Jewish Identity

Conclusion

3 Thinking About Latine Islamicity or a Muslim Latinidad /Latinicity

Latine Islam "By the Numbers"

Latine Muslims Across Abiayala and the Black-Moorish Atlantic

Latine Muslims and Afro-Moro Political Thought

Latine Muslims, Social Ethics, and an Islamic Latina Family-ism

Latine Muslims and Afro-Moro Culture

Imagining the Future of a Latine Muslim Identity

4 Jesusito

Sketches of a Biblical Christology

Sketches of a Latine Christology

5 Full of the Spirit: US Latine Christian Pneumatologies and Religious Identities

6 The Permeability of Worlds: The Role of Spirits in the Latine Religious Landscape

Santer í a

Orishas

Eg ú n

Palo

Nfumbe

Kimpungulu

Espiritismo

Esp í ritus de Luz and Muertos Oscuros

Conclusion: The Enduring Role of Spirits in Latine Religious Life

7 Latine Curaci ó n.

Divine Healing in Latine Pentecostalism

Curanderismo

Cuban Espiritismo

8 Disabilities

Critical Disability Studies and Latine Spirituality

Individual Models of Disability

Disability as Spiritual Condition (Religious Model)

Disability as Unfitness (Eugenics Model)

Disability as Medical Condition (Medical Model)

Social Model

9 An Overview of Select Latin American Marian Devotions in the United States

Nuestra Se ñ ora de Guadalupe: M é xico

Popular Devotions

Nuestra Se ñ ora de la Altagracia: Dominican Republic

Nuestra Se ñ ora de la Divina Providencia: Puerto Rico

Nuestra Se ñ ora de la Caridad del Cobre: Cuba

Nuestra Se ñ ora de la Leche y Buen Parto: United States of America

Popular Devotion

Nossa Senhora da Concei çã o Aparecida: Brazil

Appendix: Reference of Other National Marian Devotions

10 Challenging the Patriarchy

11 Shades of Inequality: Colorism at the Intersection of Society and Religion

What Is Colorism?

Social Location: Cotidianidades Coloristas

Colorism and Language

Colorism and Religion

Colorism and Solidarity

12 Our Fluidity

The Global North and the Global South: A Tale of Fluidity

Trauma: Beyond the Individual Psique

Re-member and Recordar

Latine Queer Theologies, Spiritualities, and Mysticism

Re-Membering as Reconstruction, Embodiment, and Reintegration

13 Death or Salvation of a Planet

Life-Affirming Ethics and Relationships with the Land

Environmental Justice and Civil Rights

Contributions from Latine Eco-Theology

Lived Religious Environmentalism

14 Departing from the American Dream: Toward Visions of Collective Latine Human Dignity

The American Dream in Contemporary Latine Contexts.

Origins of the American Dream and Latine Engagement

What's Wrong with the American Dream? Latine Demographics and Structural Inequalities

Alternatives to the American Dream?

15 Screwing with the System

An Ethics of Civil Initiative

A Disruptive Ethics

A Trickster-Based Ethics

An Ethics para joder

16 Sacred Texts

The Bible as Icon and Instrument of Power

Beyond the Bible: Everyday Scriptures and Lived Texts

Contesting the Sacred: Latine Biblical Scholars and the Reimagining of Scriptures

17 Sound, Cinema, and Santer í a : Listening to "Angelitos Negros" with Oy á

Part 1: Who is Oy á ?

Oy á 's Rattle, Sonidos Escondidos, Sounds Escaping

Proximities to Sonidos Escondidos and Occult Aesthetics

Beyond Electro-Organic-Sonic Collaborations

Oy á and a Way of Listening to "Angelitos Negros"

Interactivity: An Invitation to the Reader to Listen to Andr é s Eloy Blanco Recite His Poem "Angelitos Negros"

Listening to "Angelitos Negros" as Shrouded Bodies of Cultural Production

Shrouded Music: "Angelitos Negros" and "Ave Maria!"

Conclusion: (Un)shrouding the Violent Soundtrack of Angelitos Negros

18 "To Heal Every Little Wound": Reconnecting, Reclaiming, and Revitalizing Cultural Spiritual Traditions Among Indigenous Peoples of Mexico in the United States

Doctrine of Discovery: An Origin of Colonial Violence

Spanish Invasion and Colonial Occupation: Foundations of Susto Profundo

"If trauma can be inherited from one generation to the next, then so can love, resilience, and wisdom"-#TLSNunavut

Method

Data Analysis

Reconnecting: Acknowledging the Wound and (Re)learning Traditions

Reclaiming: Learning and Growing into Traditions

Revitalizing: Intergenerational Transmission of Cultural Traditions

Discussion

19 Crossing Borders.

The Fluidity of Borders: A Brief History of Forced Border Crossings

Crossing Borders: The Fluidity of Latine Migrant Bodies and Religious Expressions

Yanaguana's Song and the Fluidity of Migrant Futures

20 Nones and Alternative Paths

Defining the Terms: Nones and Alternate Paths

Nones and Alternate Paths as Critical Movements

Nones and Alternate Paths as Creative Movements

Conclusion: Where Are We Going-Where Have We Been

[Race]ing Toward the Future

Historia versus Historia

Finding Jes ú s

Moving Forward

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Bibliography

Note on Contributors

Index.

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Print version: Torre, Miguel A. De La Latine Lived Religions and Religious Identities in the United States

ISBN:

9781350460249

9781350460232

OCLC:

1603124478