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The saints of Santa Ana : faith and ethnicity in a Mexican majority city
- Title
- The saints of Santa Ana : faith and ethnicity in a Mexican majority city / Jonathan E. Calvillo.
- Author
- Calvillo, Jonathan
- Publication
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]
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Details
- Description
- x, 276 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "To examine the intersection of religion and ethnicity among Mexican immigrants, this volume takes readers into the vibrant neighborhoods of central Santa Ana, California, a Mexican majority metropolis with high rates of religious participation. Ethnic Mexicans have traditionally been characterized by high rates of religious participation, and have historically been marked as ethnoracially distinct from the white majority. On the one hand, this volume investigates whether Mexican ethnicity is indeed a cohesive organizing principle that continues to mark Mexicans as distinct. On the other hand, the volume examines the mechanisms of religion that sustain or alter in-group understandings of ethnicity. To highlight the mechanisms that shape ethnic identity, the volume takes a comparative approach, juxtaposing the experiences of Catholic and Evangelical Mexican immigrants, the two largest religious groupings in the city. Through five years of participant observation within formal and informal Catholic and Evangelical spaces in Santa Ana, and based on in-depth interviews of fifty parishioners, this book argues that religious affiliations set Catholics and Evangelicals along diverging trajectories of ethnic identity construction. In particular, I argue that while Mexican Catholics ritualize a sense of their ethnic past, Mexican evangelicals posit a rupture with the past rooted in conversion. Catholics and Evangelicals' diverging understandings of ethnic community and of ethnic identity manifest as distinct practices of ethnic space"--
- Subject
- Mexican American Catholics > California > Santa Ana > Ethnic identity
- Mexican American Protestants > California > Santa Ana > Ethnic identity
- Communities > Religious aspects > Catholic Church
- Communities > Religious aspects > Protestant churches
- Ethnicity > Religious aspects > Catholic Church
- Ethnicity > Religious aspects > Protestant churches
- Santa Ana (Calif.) > Religious life and customs
- California > Santa Ana
- Note
- Revision of the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Irvine, 2016.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- A city of saints -- A century of saints -- The authentic ethnic self -- Altar encounters -- Defining commitments through spiritual dialogue -- Notions of neighborhood.
- Call Number
- JFD 21-549
- ISBN
- 9780190097790
- 0190097795
- 9780190097806
- 0190097809
- 9780190097820 (canceled/invalid)
- 9780190097837 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2020022195
- OCLC
- 1162204725
- Author
- Calvillo, Jonathan, author.
- Title
- The saints of Santa Ana : faith and ethnicity in a Mexican majority city / Jonathan E. Calvillo.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Calvillo, Jonathan. Saints of Santa Ana New York : Oxford University Press, [2020] 9780190097820 (DLC) 2020022196
- Research Call Number
- JFD 21-549