Latino Mennonites

Felipe Hinojosa is an assistant professor of history at Texas A&M University. He is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including the Hispanic Theological Initiative Dissertation Fellowship and a First Book Grant for Minority Scholars from the Louisville Institute.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Interethnic Alliances, Sacred Spaces, and the Politics of Latino EvangelicalismPart I: Missions and Race1. Building Up the Temple: Mennonite Missions in Mexican and Puerto Rican Barrios2. Missionary Motives: Race and the Making of the Urban Racial CouncilPart II: Black, Brown, and Mennonite3. The Fight over Money: Latinos and the Black Manifesto4. "Jesus Christ Made a Macho Outta Me!": The 1972 Cross-Cultural Youth Convention5. Social Movement or Labor Union? Mennonites and the Farmworker MovementPart III: Becoming Evangélicos6. Mujeres Evangélicas: Negotiating the Borderlands of Faith and Feminism7. "Remember Sandia!": Meno-Latinos and Religious Identity PoliticsConclusion: Latino Mennonites and the Politics of BelongingNotesBibliographyIndex

Felipe Hinojosa provides in this work a carefully crafted and rendered history of Latino Mennonites from the 1930s to the 1980s that builds on Latino studies and scholarship and also offers a fresh approach to Latino religious studies... Hinojosa's focus on interethnic co-operation as well as internal tensions is a turning point for Latino religious studies because it adds a vital comparative angle... Latino Mennonites is a wonderful story told, a model of engaged, revisionist Latino religious studies that should be read and assigned in upper-undergraduate-level and graduate-level classes as a model for the future of Latino religious studies scholarship. -- Kristy Nabhan-Warren Journal of American History He has not only contributed to the scholarly understanding of the way ethnic identity intersects with faith and politics, but has done so by telling the previously unknown story of Latino Mennonites in the United States -- Curtis W. Book Brethren in Christ History and Life [ Latino Mennonites] can help us understand a bit better not just important streams within American evangelicalism but some of Iowa's present and future religious landscape as well. The Annals of Iowa A detailed and fascinating history of the Mexican and Puerto Rican experience in the Mennonite Church... Latino Mennonites documents the unique way in which Latino Mennonites straddle the border of evangelicalism and Anabaptism, and it also illustrates the intersection of civil rights, faith, and evangelical culture... Hinojosa has an engaging style, and the depth of the historical context he provides allows the personalities o his informants to shine through. Sociology of Religion Hinojosa has an engaging style, and the depth of the historical context he provides allows the personalities of his informants to shine through. Sociology of Religion Latino Mennonites is an essential read for graduate students, scholars, and anyone interested in better understanding the political and social rise of Latinos and Latinas in the United States. With Latino Mennonites, Felipe Hinojosa has set a standard for the historical and cultural study of Latino evangelicals throughout the United States. The Mennonite Quarterly Review A pleasure to read with clear and engaging prose, Latino Mennonites is an important study of the interaction between civil rights movements and religious communities in identity formation. Nova Religio