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Outline of the 5th lecture in part one of the course. Part one of the course is entitled Latino Christianity in the United States.

Twentieth-Century Struggles for Justice

  1. Struggles for Justice: In Society
    1. Mutual aid societies, e.g. La Alianza Hispano-Americana (1894)
    2. League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC, 1929)
    3. Participation in unions
    4. GI Forum (1948)
    5. United Farm Workers (César Chávez, Dolores Huerta)
    6. Raza Unida Party (1970, José Angel Gutiérrez)
    7. COPS, UNO, other community organizations (Ernie Cortés)
    8. Southwest Voter Registration and Education Project (Willie Velasquez)
    9. Sanctuary Movement
  2. Struggles for Justice: In Church
    1. Pastoral Institutes
      1. Institute of Intercultural Communication (1957)
      2. Mexican American Cultural Center (MACC, 1972)
      3. Northeast Catholic Pastoral Center for Hispanics (1976)
      4. Southeast Pastoral Institute (SEPI, 1978)
    2. Padres Asociados para los Derechos Religiosos, Educativos, y Sociales (PADRES, 1969)
    3. Católicos por la Raza (1969)
    4. Las Hermanas (1971)
    5. National Encuentros (1972, 1977, 1985, 2000)
    6. U.S. bishops’ pastoral letter on Hispanic ministry (1983)
    7. National Pastoral Plan for Hispanic Ministry (1987)
    8. Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologians in the United States (ACHTUS, 1988)
    9. Hispanic Catholic associations for deacons, diocesan directors, seminarians, catechists, church historians, and other groups
  3. Struggles for Justice: Latina/o Renewal Movements
    1. Cofradias
    2. Guadalupanas
    3. Cursillo (1947, first introduced among U.S. Latinos in 1957)
    4. Marriage Encounter (first brought to United States in 1968)
    5. Charismatic Renewal/prayer groups
    6. Basic Christian Communities
  4. Theological Reflection
    1. Theology and justice rooted in cultural/racial analysis (compare to Latin American theology)
    2. Attempts of Latina theologians (and others) to integrate gender/race/class analysis
    3. Models of Hispanic ministry: tradionalist, reformist, transformationist, multicultural
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