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In Timothy Matovina and Gary Riebe-Estrella, eds. Horizons of the Sacred: Mexican Traditions in U.S. Catholicism, pp. 119–138. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2002. "U.S. Latino/a Theology: Retrospect and Prospect." Introductory essay for Raúl Fornet-Betancourt, ed. Glaube an der Grenze: Die US-amerikanische Latino-Theologie.
Latino studies is an academic discipline which studies the experience of people of Latin American ancestry in the United States. Closely related to other ethnic studies disciplines such as African-American studies, Asian American studies, and Native American studies, Latino studies critically examines the history, culture, politics, issues, sociology, spirituality (Indigenous) and experiences ...
Rodriguez went to Catholic school starting from age 6 at Sacred Heart School in Sacramento and graduated from Christian Brothers High School.. He received a BA from Stanford University in English in 1967, an MA in philosophy from Columbia University in 1969, and was a PhD candidate in English Renaissance literature at the University of California, Berkeley from 1969 to 1972.
A major development in late-20th-century American literature was the proliferation of writing by and about Latinos. [1] The literary mixing of US and Spanish American culture, history, and social concerns is intensified by the inception of Latino literature written in English in the second half of the 20th century, in which authors such as Cristina García, Julia Álvarez, Gloria Anzaldúa ...
The Church in the Barrio: Mexican American Ethno-Catholicism in Houston is a 2006 book by Roberto R. Treviño, published by the University of North Carolina Press.The work covers the years 1911-1972 [1] and discusses the relationship between the Mexican-American community and the Catholic church, and the "ethno-Catholicism" among Houston's Mexicans. [2]
In her essay, Stevens defines Marianismo as "the cult of female spiritual superiority, which teaches that women are semidivine, morally superior to and spiritually stronger than men." She explains the characteristics of machismo: "exaggerated aggressiveness in intransigence in male-to-male interpersonal relationships and arrogance and sexual ...
As of 2014, the majority of Hispanic Americans are Christians (80%), [4] while 24% of Hispanic adults in the United States are former Catholics. 55%, or about 19.6 million Latinos, of the United States Hispanic population identify as Catholic. 22% are Protestant, 16% being Evangelical Protestants, and the last major category places 18% as unaffiliated, which means they have no particular ...
According to scholar Rodolfo Acuña, serving Mexican American students without providing Mexican American faculty was considered a sort of colonialism and cultural assimilation. [16] In addition, many Mexican American students were put at a disadvantage because speaking Spanish (even outside of class) was considered "degrading" or "un-American."