TY - BOOK AU - Hinojosa,Felipe TI - Apostles of Change: Latino Radical Politics, Church Occupations, and the Fight to Save the Barrio T2 - Historia USA SN - 9781477321980 AV - HN49.R33 H55 2021 U1 - 303.484 23 PY - 2021///] CY - Austin : PB - University of Texas Press, KW - Christianity and politics KW - United States KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Church and social problems KW - Church buildings KW - Secular use KW - Hispanic Americans KW - Political activity KW - Protest camps KW - Radicalism KW - Religious aspects KW - Christianity KW - Urban renewal KW - Social aspects KW - HISTORY / General KW - bisacsh KW - barrio, Mexican American history, Mexican American, Latino, activism, civil rights, radical politics, religion, Latino faith, Mexican American Youth Organization, Young Lords, immigrant rights, advocacy, community organizing, Houston, Politics, Latina, Latinx, Chicano, Chicana, Chicanx, Church, Texas, History, US History, American History, American Studies N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations --; Introduction The People’s Church --; Chapter One Thunder in Chicago’s Lincoln Park --; Chapter Two “People—Yes, Cathedrals—No!” in Los Angeles --; Chapter Three The People’s Church in East Harlem --; Chapter Four Magic in Houston’s Northside Barrio --; Conclusion When History Dreams --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access N2 - In the late 1960s, the American city found itself in steep decline. An urban crisis fueled by federal policy wreaked destruction and displacement on poor and working-class families. The urban drama included religious institutions, themselves undergoing fundamental change, that debated whether to stay in the city or move to the suburbs. Against the backdrop of the Black and Brown Power movements, which challenged economic inequality and white supremacy, young Latino radicals began occupying churches and disrupting services to compel church communities to join their protests against urban renewal, poverty, police brutality, and racism. Apostles of Change tells the story of these occupations and establishes their context within the urban crisis; relates the tensions they created; and articulates the activists' bold, new vision for the church and the world. Through case studies from Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, and Houston, Felipe Hinojosa reveals how Latino freedom movements frequently crossed boundaries between faith and politics and argues that understanding the history of these radical politics is essential to understanding the dynamic changes in Latino religious groups from the late 1960s to the early 1980s UR - https://doi.org/10.7560/321980 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781477322000 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781477322000/original ER -