{"product_id":"sowing-the-sacred-mexican-pentecostal-farmworkers-in-california-9780197748169","title":"Sowing the Sacred: Mexican Pentecostal Farmworkers in California","description":"\u003cem\u003eSowing the Sacred \u003c\/em\u003etraces the development of Pentecostalism among Mexican-American migrant laborers in California's agricultural industry from the 1910s to the 1960s. At the time, Pentecostalism was often seen as a distasteful new sect rife with cultish and fanatical tendencies; U.S. growers thought of Mexicans as no more than a mere workforce not fit for citizenship; and industrial agriculture was celebrated for feeding American families while its exploitation of workers went largely ignored. Farmworkers were made out to be culturally vacuous and lacking creative genius, simple laborers caught in a vertiginous cycle of migrant work. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book argues that farmworkers from \u003cem\u003eLa Asamblea Apostólica de la Fe en Cristo Jesús\u003c\/em\u003e carved out a robust socio-religious existence despite these conditions, and in doing so produced a vast record of cultural vibrancy. Examining racialized portrayals of Mexican workers and their religious lives through images created by farmworkers themselves, \u003cem\u003eSowing the Sacred\u003c\/em\u003e draws on oral histories, photographs, and materials from new archival collections to tell an intimate story of sacred-space making. In showing how these workers mapped out churches, performed outdoor baptisms in grower-controlled waterways, and built and maintained houses of worship in the fields, this book considers the role that historical memory plays in telling these stories.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLloyd Daniel Barba\u003c\/strong\u003e is Assistant Professor of Religion and Core Faculty in Latinx and Latin American Studies at Amherst College. He is the co-editor of \u003cem\u003eOneness Pentecostalism: Race, Gender and Culture\u003c\/em\u003e (2023), and editor of \u003cem\u003eLatin American and U.S. Latinx Religion in North America\u003c\/em\u003e (2023). His scholarship on Pentecostalism, Catholicism, the Sanctuary Movement, and material religion has been published in journals such as Journal of the American Academy of Religion, American Religion, \u003cem\u003ePerspectivas\u003c\/em\u003e, and MAVCOR and various edited volumes. including \u003cem\u003eThe Oxford Handbook on Latinx Christianity\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFaith and Power: Latino Religious Politics since 1945\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eProtestant Aesthetics and the Arts\u003c\/em\u003e, to name a few. He serves on the council of the American Society of Church History and co-chairs the History of Christianity Unit of the American Academy of Religion.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50488065556754,"sku":"9780197748169","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d3815ce8-c0d5-48de-9db3-3f9e148c3ae1.jpg?v=1730466381","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/sowing-the-sacred-mexican-pentecostal-farmworkers-in-california-9780197748169","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}