By Kristy Nabhan-Warren

ISBN-10: 081475824X

ISBN-13: 9780814758243

ISBN-10: 0814758258

ISBN-13: 9780814758250

In 1998, a Mexican American girl named Estela Ruiz started seeing visions of the Virgin Mary in south Phoenix. The apparitions and messages spurred the production of Mary’s Ministries, a Catholic evangelizing workforce, and its sister association, ESPIRITU, which makes a speciality of community-based projects and social justice for Latinos/as.

Based on ten years of player remark and in-depth interviews, The Virgin of El Barrio strains the religious transformation of Ruiz, the improvement of the neighborhood that has sprung up round her, and the overseas growth in their message. Their firms combination well known and authentic Catholicism in addition to evangelical Protestant forms of compliment and worship, laying off mild on Catholic responses to the tensions among well known and authentic piety and the desires of Mexican Americans.

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