Sowing the Sacred : Mexican Pentecostal Farmworkers in California

Name: Sowing the Sacred : Mexican Pentecostal Farmworkers in California
Brand: Oxford University Press Inc

Oxford University Press Inc

Sowing the SacredMexican Pentecostal Farmworkers in California\nAuthor(s): Lloyd Daniel Barba\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Oxford University Press Inc, United States\nImprint: Oxford University Press Inc\nISBN-13: 9780197748169, 978-0197748169\nSynopsis\nSowing the Sacred traces 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; [url] 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.\nThis book argues that farmworkers from La Asamblea Apostlica de la Fe en Cristo Jess carved out a .