Tejano Religion and Ethnicity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tejano Religion and Ethnicity write by Timothy M. Matovina. This book was released on 2014-02-04. Tejano Religion and Ethnicity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. While the flags of Spain, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, and the United States successively flew over San Antonio, its Tejano community (Texans of Spanish or Mexican descent) formed a distinct ethnic identity that persisted despite rapid social and cultural changes. In this pioneering study, Timothy Matovina explores the central role of Tejano Catholicism in forging this unique identity and in binding the community together. The first book-length treatment of the historical role of religion in a Mexican-origin community in the United States, this study covers three distinct periods in the emergence of Tejano religious and ethnic identity: the Mexican period (1821-1836), the Texas Republic (1836-1845), and the first decade and a half after annexation into the United States (1845-1860). Matovina's research demonstrates how theories of unilateral assimilation are inadequate for understanding the Tejano community, especially in comparison with the experiences of European immigrants to the United States. As residents of the southwestern United States continue to sort out the legacy of U.S. territorial expansion in the nineteenth century, studies like this one offer crucial understanding of the survival and resilience of Latino cultures in the United States. Tejano Religion and Ethnicity will be of interest to a broad popular and scholarly audience.
San Antonio Tejanos, 1821-1860
San Antonio Tejanos, 1821-1860 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook San Antonio Tejanos, 1821-1860 write by Timothy M. Matovina. This book was released on 1993. San Antonio Tejanos, 1821-1860 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Faith Formation and Popular Religion
Faith Formation and Popular Religion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Faith Formation and Popular Religion write by Anita De Luna. This book was released on 2002. Faith Formation and Popular Religion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book uses political, religious, and cultural history to examine catechesis. Sister de Luna establishes that religiosidad popular, the core theme for Hispanic theology, is Christian and Catholic and traces its elements in Church catechisms of the sixteenth through the twentieth centuries. She goes on to examine the relationship between theology of beauty, catechesis, and spirituality establishing that the three disciplines were integral to faith formation in the early church, but were separated through the centuries. An in-depth analysis of six selected catechisms reveals that popular religion as a combination of faith and culture was evident at the beginning of Hispanic Catholicism in the sixteenth century. The investigation notes the gradual elimination and eventual replacement of the cultural aspects in the catechetical texts in the nineteenth century. The author concludes that the reunification of the cultural spiritual symbols with the presentation of doctrine could revitalize catechesis and bring Christian evangelization to a renewed effectiveness.
Inventing the Fiesta City
Inventing the Fiesta City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Inventing the Fiesta City write by Laura Hernández-Ehrisman. This book was released on 2016-03-17. Inventing the Fiesta City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The story of how the multicultural identity of San Antonio, Texas, has been shaped and polished through its annual fiesta since the late nineteenth century.
Tejano Leadership in Mexican and Revolutionary Texas
Tejano Leadership in Mexican and Revolutionary Texas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tejano Leadership in Mexican and Revolutionary Texas write by Jesús F. De la Teja. This book was released on 2010-01-18. Tejano Leadership in Mexican and Revolutionary Texas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tejanos (Texans of Mexican heritage) were instrumental leaders in the life and development of Texas during the Mexican period, the war of independence, and the Texas Republic. Jesús F. de la Teja and ten other scholars examine the lives, careers, and influence of many long-neglected but historically significant Tejano leaders who were active and influential in the formation, political and military leadership, and economic development of Texas. In Tejano Leadership in Mexican and Revolutionary Texas, lesser-known figures such as Father Refugio de la Garza, Juan Martín Veramendi, José Antonio Saucedo, Raphael Manchola, and Carlos de la Garza join their better-known counterparts—José Antonio Navarro, Juan Seguín, and Plácido Benavides, for example—on the stage of Texas and regional historical consideration. This book also features a foreword by David J. Weber, in which he discusses how Anglocentric views allowed important Tejano figures to fade from public knowledge. Students and scholars of Texas and regional history, those interested in Texana, and readers in Latino/a studies will glean important insights from Tejano Leadership in Mexican and Revolutionary Texas.
