Latinos and the New Immigrant Church

by David A. Badillo

Book Overview

Latin Americans make up the largest new immigrant population in the United States, and Latino Catholics are the fastest-growing sector of the Catholic Church in America. In this book, historian David A. Badillo offers a history of Latino Catholicism in the United States by looking at its growth in San Antonio, Chicago, New York, and Miami.

Focusing on twentieth-century Latino urbanism, Badillo contrasts broad historic commonalities of Catholic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801883881
• ISBN13: 9780801883880
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"