Of the thirty-seven million Latinos living in the United States, nearly five million declare themselves to be either Pentecostal or Charismatic, and more convert every day. Latino Pentecostal Identity examines the historical and contemporary rise of Pentecostalism among Latinos, their conversion fro...

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Main Author:	Sanchez Walsh, Arlene (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY Columbia University Press [2003]
Series:	Religion and American Culture
Subjects:	Religion, Jewish Studies, Theology Theology / Judaism / Religion Theology, Jewish Studies and Religious Studies Judentum Theologie Hispanic American Pentecostals
Online Access:	DE-859 DE-860 DE-473 DE-739 DE-1046 DE-1043 DE-858 Volltext
Summary:	Of the thirty-seven million Latinos living in the United States, nearly five million declare themselves to be either Pentecostal or Charismatic, and more convert every day. Latino Pentecostal Identity examines the historical and contemporary rise of Pentecostalism among Latinos, their conversion from other denominations, and the difficulties involved in reconciling conflicts of ethnic and religious identity. The book also looks at how evangelical groups encourage the severing of ethnic ties in favor of spiritual community and the ambivalence Latinos face when their faith fails to protect them from racial discrimination. Latinos are not new to Pentecostalism; indeed, they have been becoming Pentecostal for more than a hundred years. Thus several generations have never belonged to any other faith. Yet, as Arlene M. Sánchez Walsh articulates, the perception of adherents as Catholic converts persists, eliding the reality of a specific Latino Pentecostal population that both participates in the spiritual and material culture of the larger evangelical Christian movement and imprints that movement with its own experiences. Focusing on three groups of Latino Pentecostals/Charismatics--the Assemblies of God, Victory Outreach, and the Vineyard--Sánchez Walsh considers issues such as the commodification of Latino evangelical culture, the Latinization of Pentecostalism, and the ways in which Latino Pentecostals have differentiated themselves from the larger Latino Catholic culture. Extensive fieldwork, surveys, and personal interviews inform her research and show how, in an overwhelmingly Euro-American denomination, diverse Latino faith
Item Description:	Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher’s Web site, viewed Jan. 06, 2016)
Physical Description:	1 online resource 13 illus., 5 maps
ISBN:	9780231508964