New Mexico's Moses : Reies López Tijerina and the religious origins of the Mexican American civil rights movement /

New Mexico's Moses : Reies López Tijerina and the religious origins of the Mexican American civil rights movement /

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Author / Creator:	Gutiérrez, Ramón A., 1951- author.
Imprint:	Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2022] ©2022
Description:	ix, 545 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Querencias series Querencias series.
Subject:	Tijerina, Reies -- Religion. Civil rights workers -- New Mexico.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12742087

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Varying Form of Title:	Reies López Tijerina and the religious origins of the Mexican American civil rights movement
ISBN:	082636375X 9780826363756
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	In New Mexico's Moses, Ramón A. Gutiérrez dives deeply into Reies López Tijerina's religious formation during the 1940s and 1950s, illustrating how his Pentecostal foundation remained an integral part of his psyche even as he migrated toward social-movement politics. An Assemblies of God evangelist turned Pentecostal itinerant preacher, Tijerina used his secularized apocalyptic theology to inspire the dispossessed heirs of Spanish and Mexican land grants fighting to recuperate ancestral lands throughout northern New Mexico and the Southwest. Using Tijerina's collected sermons, Gutiérrez demonstrates the ways in which biblical prophecy influenced Tijerina throughout his life from his early days as a preacher to his leadership of the Alianza Federal de Mercedes. Tijerina sought justice for those who had lost their lands and was determined to eradicate the most egregious forms of racism and to valorize the language and culture of mexicanos. Translated into English for the first time here, Tijerina's sermons serve as a blueprint for the religious origins of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement.

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