New Mexico's Moses: Reies L pez Tijerina and the Religious Origins of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement

by Ram n A. Guti rrez

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826363756
Publisher:	University of New Mexico Press
Publication date:	06/01/2022
Series:	Querencias Series
Pages:	496
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ramón A. Gutiérrez is the Preston and Sterling Morton Distinguished Service Professor of History emeritus at the University of Chicago. He is the author of many publications including When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846 and the coeditor, with Kathleen Belew, of A Field Guide to White Supremacy.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
A Note on Ethnic and Racial Terminology

Introduction
Chapter One. The Social Origins of the Tijerina Clan
Chapter Two. The Origins of Pentecostalism
Chapter Three. Becoming an Evangelist
Chapter Four. Reies Tijerina's Ministry
Chapter Five. Of Revelation and Reies
Chapter Six. Will He Find Any Faith on Earth . . . ?
Chapter Seven. The Valley of Peace
Chapter Eight. Restoring New Mexico's Land Grants
Chapter Nine. Of Prophets, Ancestors, and Tijerinas

Epilogue
Note on Translation
Appendix One. ¿Hallará Fe en La Tierra . . . ? / Will He Find Any Faith on Earth . . . ?
Notes
Bibliography
Index