Title Prosperity Gospel Latinos and their American dream / Tony Tian-Ren Lin

Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 202 pages) Series Where religion lives Where religion lives. Contents Introduction: The Gospel of the American Dream -- Communities of Dreamers -- The Prescription for the Dream -- Changed by the Dream -- Dreaming of Prosperity at Home -- Conclusion: The Dream of Meritocracy 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.)"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 31, 2020) Subject Latin Americans -- United States -- Religion Hispanic Americans -- Religion. Pentecostalism -- Latin America Pentecostalism -- United States Faith movement (Hagin) -- United States Latin Americans -- Cultural assimilation -- United States -- Religious aspects RELIGION -- Christianity -- Pentecostal & Charismatic. Faith movement (Hagin) Hispanic Americans -- Religion Latin Americans -- Religion Pentecostalism Latin America United States Form Electronic book ISBN 9781469658971 1469658976 9781469658964 1469658968

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