La Llorona's Children: Religion, Life, and Death in the U.S.–Mexican Borderlands
Luis D. Leon
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paperback. An innovative exploration of religion in the U.S. - Mexican borderlands. Constructs genealogies of the major traditions spanning Mexico City, East Los Angeles, and the southwestern U.S: Guadalupe devotion, curanderismo, espiritualismo, and evangelical/ pentecostal traditions. Num Pages: 331 pages, 14 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: HR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
Luis D. Leon's compelling, innovative exploration of religion in the U.S.-Mexican borderlands issues a fundamental challenge to current scholarship in the field and recharts the landscape of Chicano faith. La Llorona's Children constructs genealogies of the major traditions spanning Mexico City, East Los Angeles, and the southwestern United States: Guadalupe devotion, curanderismo, espiritualismo, and evangelical/ Pentecostal traditions. Leon theorizes a religious poetics that functions as an effective and subversive survival tactic akin to crossing the U.S.-Mexican border. He claims that, when examined in terms of broad categorical religious forms and intentions, these traditions are remarkably alike and resonate religious ideas ... Read more
Luis D. Leon's compelling, innovative exploration of religion in the U.S.-Mexican borderlands issues a fundamental challenge to current scholarship in the field and recharts the landscape of Chicano faith. La Llorona's Children constructs genealogies of the major traditions spanning Mexico City, East Los Angeles, and the southwestern United States: Guadalupe devotion, curanderismo, espiritualismo, and evangelical/ Pentecostal traditions. Leon theorizes a religious poetics that functions as an effective and subversive survival tactic akin to crossing the U.S.-Mexican border. He claims that, when examined in terms of broad categorical religious forms and intentions, these traditions are remarkably alike and resonate religious ideas ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
331
Condition
New
Number of Pages
331
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520223516
SKU
V9780520223516
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About Luis D. Leon
Luis D. Leon is visiting assistant professor in Ethnic Studies and Religious Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
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