Revelation in Aztlán

Jacqueline M. Hidalgo is Assistant Professor of Latina/o Studies and Religion at Williams College in Massachusetts, USA.

• Introduction: Scriptures, Place, and No Place in the Chicano Movement.- Chapter One: “We Are Aztlán”: Writing Scriptures, Writing Utopia in El Plan Espiritual de Aztlán.- Chapter Two: “The Holy City Which Has Been Written in This Book”: The Utopian Scripturalization of Revelation.- Chapter Three: “The Spirit Will Speak for My People”: El Plan de Santa Barbara and the Chicanx Movement as a Project of Scripturalization.- Chapter Four: “Power and Dominance, Loyalty and Conformity”: Family, Gender, Sexuality, and Utopian Scripturalization.- Chapter Five: “Faith and Social Justice Are So Connected in My Book”: Scriptures, Scrolls, and Scribes as Technologies of Diaspora.- Coda: Scriptural Revelations and Reconquest.

“Hidalgo does a good job of navigating the world of religious study/commentary and Latino/a studies. It is a masterful work of Chicanx history and texts … . for experts in Chicanx studies, the analysis of key texts from the lens of scripture and utopia provides a new avenue of studying this history that pays attention to religious language.” (Fides et Historia, Vol. 51 (1), 2019)“Revelaon in Aztlán is a must-read for anyone interested in the Chicanx movement and contemporary biblical scholarship. It is a bold and eloquent work written by a scholar for an audience of scholars. … Hidalgo’s work provides a template for understanding an oppressed community from a tumultuous era in the last century, but it also opens new opportunies to reflect on and respond to our crisis today.” (Jason Steidle, Reading Religion, readingreligion.org, September, 2018)​