Recognizing the Latino resurgence in U.S. religion: the Emmaus paradigm

This title delivers a knockout blow to the old notion that Latinos and Latinas are just another immigrant group waiting to be assimilated.

Taking as analogy the scriptural episode of Emmaus in which Jesus walked unrecognised alongside his disciples, the authors detail how after nearly a century of unrecognised presence, the nations more than 25 million Latinos and Latinas began, in 1967, to use religion as a major source of the social and symbolic capital to fortify their identity in American society.

Ana Mara Daz-Stevens and Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo describe how this Latino Religious Resurgence has created a church-based model of multicultural pluralism that challenges the current trend of U.S. politics.