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List of assigned readings and exams per session for the course.
| Session | Topic | Readings | Key Dates | ||
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| 1 | Introduction | ||||
| 2 | Latino Christianity in the
United States |
¡Presente!, xv-xxiii, 1-9, 17-20, 25-27, 32-35, scan
9-43. By “scan” I mean read all the short document introductions,
glance over the documents themselves, and read more carefully select
documents that catch your attention. For all days on which readings
from ¡Presente! are assigned, be prepared to discuss (a) the assigned primary documents and (b) one other primary document which caught your interest when you scanned the overall reading. |
See Lecture 1
Outline |
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| 3 | Latino Christianity in the United States | (a)*Gilberto M. Hinojosa, “Friars and Indians: Towards a
Perspective of Cultural Interaction in the San Antonio Mission,”
U.S. Catholic Historian 9 (winter/spring 1990):
7-26; (b) ¡Presente!, 245-247. |
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| 4 | Latino Christianity in the
United States |
¡Presente!, 45-58, 68-70, 73-76, 80-81, scan 58-89 | See Lecture 2
Outline |
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| 5 | Latino Christianity in the United
States |
(a) *Ana María Díaz-Stevens, “The Saving Grace: The Matriarchal
Core of Latino Catholicism,” Latino Studies Journal 4
(September 1993): 60-78; (b) ¡Presente!, 248-251. |
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| 6 | Latino Christianity in the United
States |
¡Presente!, 91-106, 110-115, 130-132, scan 101-139 | See Lecture 3
Outline |
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| 7 | Latino Christianity in the United
States |
(a) *Daniel G. Groody, Border of Death, Valley of Life: An
Immigrant Journey of Heart and Spirit (Lanham, MD: Rowman &
Littlefield, 2002), chap. 1 “Corazón Destrozado,” pp. 13-39; (b) ¡Presente!, 252-254. |
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| 8 | Latino Christianity in the United
States |
¡Presente!, 141-150, 160-163, 171-174, scan 151-189 | See Lecture 4
Outline |
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| 9 | Latino Christianity in the United
States |
(a) *Ada María Isasi-Díaz, Mujerista Theology: A Theology for
the Twenty-First Century (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1996), chap. 3
“By the Rivers of Babylon,” pp. 35-56; (b) ¡Presente!, 185-189, 254-257. (c) Psalm 137 (Please bring a Bible to class for today’s session). |
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| 10 | Latino Christianity in the United
States |
(a) ¡Presente!, 191-199, 206-209, 217-221, 238-239;
scan 199-241; (b) handout “Struggles for Justice.” |
See Lecture 5
Outline |
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| 11 | Latino Christianity in the United
States |
(a) *Timothy Matovina, “Latino Catholics and American Public Life,”
in Can Charitable Choice Work? Covering Religion’s Impact on
Urban Affairs and Social Services, ed. Andrew Walsh (Hartford,
CT: The Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public
Life, 2001), 56-77; (b) ¡Presente!, 257-260. |
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| 12 | Latino Christianity in the United
States |
*Paul Barton, Hispanic Methodists, Presbyterians, and Baptists in Texas (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006), chap. 5 “Jesús Es Mi Rey Soberano: The Mexican-American Character of los Protestantes,” pp. 78-114. | See Lecture 6
Outline |
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| 13 | MIDTERM EXAM | MIDTERM EXAM |
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| 14 | Mestizaje and a Galilean Christology | (a) *Allan Figueroa Deck, ed., Frontiers of Hispanic Theology
in the United States (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1992), introduction,
pp. ix-xxvi; (b) Timothy Matovina, Roberto Piña, and Yolanda Tarango, “U.S. Hispanic and Latin American Theologies: Critical Distinctions,” Catholic Theological Society of America Proceedings 48 (1993): 128-129; (c) Galilean Journey, preface, introduction. |
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| 15 | Mestizaje and a Galilean
Christology |
(a) Galilean Journey, chapters 1-3; (b) handouts on Latino identity (3 pages). |
See Lecture 7 Outline | ||
| 16 | Mestizaje and a Galilean
Christology |
(a) Galilean Journey, chapters 4-6; (b) handouts on select Biblical passages (2 pages); (c) IMPORTANT: Please bring a Bible to class for today’s session. |
See Lecture 8
Outline |
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17 |
Mestizaje and a Galilean
Christology |
(a) Galilean Journey, chapters 7-9; (b) handout “Notes from Virgilio Elizondo’s Galilean Journey.” |
See Lecture 9 Outline | ||
| 18 | Foundational Faith Expressions | (a) Nican mopohua, from Virgil Elizondo, Guadalupe: Mother of
the New Creation (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1997), 5-22; (b) *Virgilio Elizondo, “Our Lady of Guadalupe as a Cultural Symbol,” in Beyond Borders: Writings of Virgilio Elizondo and Friends, ed. Timothy Matovina (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2000), 118-125. |
See Lecture 10
Outline |
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| 19 | Foundational Faith Expressions |
*Miguel H. Díaz, “Dime con quién andas y te diré quién eres: We Walk with Our Lady of Charity,” in From the Heart of Our People: Latino/a Explorations in Catholic Systematic Theology, ed. Orlando O. Espín and Miguel H. Díaz (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1999), 153-171. | |||
| 20 | Foundational Faith Expressions |
*Timothy Matovina, “Liturgy, Popular Rites, and Popular Spirituality,” in Mestizo Worship: A Pastoral Approach to Liturgical Ministry, ed. Virgilio Elizondo and Timothy Matovina (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1998), 81-91. | See Lecture 11
Outline |
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| 21 | Foundational Faith Expressions |
(a) *Horizons of the Sacred, Davalos essay, pp.
41-68; (b) handouts with Way of the Cross prayer texts. |
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| 22 | Foundational Faith Expressions |
*Horizons of the Sacred, Medina and Cadena essay, pp. 69-94 | |||
| 23 | Foundational Faith Expressions |
*Horizons of the Sacred, Goizueta essay, pp.119-138 | See Lecture 12 Outline | ||
| 24 | Faith and Justice | (a) *Daisy L. Machado, “The Unnamed Woman: Justice, Feminists, and
the Undocumented Woman,” in A Reader in Latina Feminist Theology:
Religion and Justice, ed. María Pilar Aquino, Daisy L. Machado,
and Jeanette Rodríguez (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002),
161-176; (b) Judges 19 (Please bring a Bible to class for today’s session). |
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| 25 | Faith and Justice |
*Justo L. González, Mañana: Christian Theology from a Hispanic Perspective (Nashville: Abingdon, 1990), chap. 6 “Let the Dead Gods Bury Their Dead,” pp. 89-100. | See Lectures 13 & 14 Outlines |
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| 26 | Faith and Justice |
(a) *Alex Nava, “On Tragic Beauty,” in New Horizons in
Hispanic/Latino(a) Theology, ed. Benjamín Valentín (Cleveland:
Pilgrim, 2003), 181-200; (b) Job, chaps. 1-2, 38-42 (Please bring a Bible to class for today’s session). |
See Lecture 15
Outline |
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| 27 | Faith and Justice |
(a) Verónica Méndez, “Treasure of Hope,” in The Treasure of
Guadalupe, ed. Virgilio Elizondo, Allan Figueroa Deck, and
Timothy Matovina (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006),
45-49; (b) Timothy Matovina, “A Fundamental Gap: Conservatives, Progressives and Hispanic Catholicism,” America (17 March 2003): 6-8; (c) Timothy Matovina, “Hispanic Catholics: El futuro Is Here,” Commonweal (14 September 2001): 19-21. |
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| 28 | FINAL EXAM |
FINAL EXAM | |||
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