The Mestizo/a Community of the Spirit
by
Oscar Garcia-Johnson
This work models a creative exercise in ecclesiology based on a Latino/a practical theology of the Spirit, which designs theological discourse based on its encounter with the Spirit in human culture.
Suffering and Salvation in Ciudad Juarez
by
Nancy Pineda-Madrid
A theological reflection on feminicides in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, that attempts to understand the cultural, economic, and even religious factors that feed the violence. Discusses social suffering and salvation through solidarity and community practices that resist this violence.
Migrational Religion: Context and Creativity in the Latinx Diaspora
by
João B. Chaves
Offers an account of the dynamics that shape the role of immigrant churches in the United States. Migrational Religion acts as a case study of a network formed by communities of Brazilian immigrants who, although affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention, formed a distinctive ethnic association.