Prosperity Gospel Latinos and their American dream /

Prosperity Gospel Latinos and their American dream /

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Author / Creator:	Lin, Tony Tian-Ren, author.
Imprint:	Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2020]
Description:	xi, 202 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Where religion lives Where religion lives.
Subject:	Latin Americans -- Cultural assimilation -- United States -- Religious aspects. Faith movement (Hagin) -- United States. Pentecostalism -- United States. Pentecostalism -- Latin America. Hispanic Americans -- Religion. Latin Americans -- United States -- Religion. Faith movement (Hagin) Hispanic Americans -- Religion. Latin Americans -- Religion. Pentecostalism. Latin America. United States.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12780257

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ISBN:	9781469658940 1469658941 9781469658957 146965895X 9781469658964 9781469658971
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Building on in-the-field immersive ethnographies and extended interviews conducted in Spanish in California, Virginia, and New York City (the NYC piece is new), Lin shows how Latino Pentecostals form a new "American" identity in the process of following the teachings of Prosperity Gospel Pentecostalism. While past studies have looked at how Latino immigrants become Pentecostals, Lin looks at how Latino Pentecostals become "American." This work arises from the intersection of two major trends transforming the United States in the twenty-first century. First, the rapid, continuing growth of the Latino population-many of them immigrants both documented and undocumented; second, the increasing influence of Prosperity Gospel Pentecostalism in American culture. (Just as Latinos have evolved from presenting as a relatively small and ignored population in the USA to one that wields significant economic and cultural influence, so has Prosperity Gospel Christianity, at one point mocked and derided in the mainstream, gained influence in American culture.)"--

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Summary:	In this immersive ethnography, Tony Tian-Ren Lin explores the reasons that Latin American immigrants across the United States are increasingly drawn to Prosperity Gospel Pentecostalism, a strand of Protestantism gaining popularity around the world. Lin contends that Latinos embrace Prosperity Gospel, which teaches that believers may achieve both divine salvation and worldly success, because it helps them account for the contradictions of their lives as immigrants. Weaving together his informants' firsthand accounts of their religious experiences and everyday lives, Lin offers poignant insight into how they see their faith transforming them both as individuals and as communities.<br> <br> <br> <br> The theology fuses salvation with material goods so that as these immigrants pursue spiritual rewards they are also, perhaps paradoxically, striving for the American dream. But after all, Lin observes, prosperity is the gospel of the American dream. In this way, while becoming better Prosperity Gospel Pentecostals they are also adopting traditional white American norms. Yet this is not a story of smooth assimilation as most of these immigrants must deal with the immensity of the broader cultural and political resistance to their actually becoming Americans. Rather, Prosperity Gospel Pentecostalism gives Latinos the logic and understanding of themselves as those who belong in this country yet remain perpetual outsiders.
Physical Description:	xi, 202 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9781469658940 1469658941 9781469658957 146965895X 9781469658964 9781469658971