Las Hermanas: Chicana/Latina Religious-Political Activism in the U.S. Catholic Church (review)
Evangelicalism would seem to share little with curanderismo and spiritualism. Yet, Leon effectively makes the case that Pentecostals continue "religious and ecstatic modes of being that existed in Mesoamerica prior to Spanish colonization" (p. 204) that are also found in curanderismo and Mexican spiritualism. Based on extensive fieldwork at the evangelical organization Victory Outreach and its Spanish churches Alcance Victoria, based in east Los Angeles, Leon argues that evangelical congregations function as "mechanisms of cultural brokerage" (p. 235) for marginalized immigrants and Mexican Americans.