Latinos and the new immigrant church / David A. Badillo.

Latin Americans make up the largest new immigrant population in the United States, and Latino Catholics are the fastest-growing sector of the Catholic Church in America. In this book, historian David A. Badillo offers a history of Latino Catholicism in the United States by looking at its growth in S...

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Main Author: Badillo, David A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2006.
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Table of Contents:
  • Beginnings : Catholic religious tradition in Spain and Latin America
  • Mexico's revolution travels to San Antonio
  • Colonial dilemmas : Puerto Ricans and the U.S. church
  • Powers of the prelates : urban hierarchies contrasted
  • Cuban Miami and exile Catholicism
  • Suburbanization and mobility in Catholic Chicago
  • New urban opportunities : church leadership in Texas and New York City
  • Globalization and the new immigrant church
  • Latino religious tradition as metaphor.