New Mexico's Moses
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New Mexico's Moses

Reies López Tijerina and the Religious Origins of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement

  1. 496 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF
Available until 31 Dec |Learn more

New Mexico's Moses

Reies López Tijerina and the Religious Origins of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement

About this book

In New Mexico's Moses, Ramón A. Gutiérrez dives deeply into Reies López Tijerina's religious formation during the 1940s and 1950s, illustrating how his Pentecostal foundation remained an integral part of his psyche even as he migrated toward social-movement politics. An Assemblies of God evangelist turned Pentecostal itinerant preacher, Tijerina used his secularized apocalyptic theology to inspire the dispossessed heirs of Spanish and Mexican land grants fighting to recuperate ancestral lands throughout northern New Mexico and the Southwest. Using Tijerina's collected sermons, Gutiérrez demonstrates the ways in which biblical prophecy influenced Tijerina throughout his life from his early days as a preacher to his leadership of the Alianza Federal de Mercedes. Tijerina sought justice for those who had lost their lands and was determined to eradicate the most egregious forms of racism and to valorize the language and culture of mexicanos. Translated into English for the first time here, Tijerina's sermons serve as a blueprint for the religious origins of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. A Note on Ethnic and Racial Terminology
  8. Introduction
  9. Chapter 1. The Social Origins of the Tijerina Clan
  10. Chapter 2. The Origins of Pentecostalism
  11. Chapter 3. Becoming an Evangelist
  12. Chapter 4. Reies Tijerina’s Ministry
  13. Chapter 5. Of Revelation and Reies
  14. Chapter 6. Will He Find Any Faith on Earth . . . ?
  15. Chapter 7. The Valley of Peace
  16. Chapter 8. Restoring New Mexico’s Land Grants
  17. Chapter 9. Of Prophets, Ancestors, and Tijerinas
  18. Epilogue
  19. Note on Translation
  20. Appendix 1. Hallara Fe en La Tierra . . . ? / Will He Find Any Faith on Earth . . . ?
  21. Notes
  22. Bibliography
  23. Index