La Llorona's Children: Religion, Life, and Death in the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands

by Luis D. León

Book Overview

Luis D. Le n's compelling, innovative exploration of religion in the U.S.-Mexican borderlands issues a fundamental challenge to current scholarship in the field and recharts the landscape of Chicano faith. La Llorona's Children constructs genealogies of the major traditions spanning Mexico City, East Los Angeles, and the southwestern United States: Guadalupe devotion, curanderismo, espiritualismo, and evangelical/ Pentecostal traditions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520223519
• ISBN13: 9780520223516
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"