Title: Gastón Espinosa.<i>Latino Pentecostals in America: Faith and Politics in Action</i>.
Abstract:Latino Pentecostals in America: Faith and Politics in Action offers a useful introduction to its titular namesake, telling important stories and documenting aspects of the Latino Pentecostal quest for...Latino Pentecostals in America: Faith and Politics in Action offers a useful introduction to its titular namesake, telling important stories and documenting aspects of the Latino Pentecostal quest for “voice, agency, and leadership in the Assemblies of God, in Latino Protestantism, and in American public life” (13). That being said, caveat lector. First, as Gastón Espinosa discloses (to his credit), the package is mislabeled, yielding contents more circumscribed than the title suggests: America’s largest Pentecostal denomination, the Assemblies of God (AG), contains a set of Spanish-language districts; this is largely the story of those districts. There is nothing wrong with denominational history of this kind, but readers should know that Latino Pentecostals outside these districts figure only indirectly, if at all, in the narrative. The book suffers from other shortcomings as well, including careless errors, dubious claims, and a fair share of redundancy. Overall, the substance of the narrative holds, but the particulars are not always reliable.Read More
Publication Year: 2016
Publication Date: 2016-10-01
Language: en
Type: article
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