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Top 10 Things You don't Know About Latino/a Religion

Top 10 Things You Dont Know about Latin@ Religion (in no particular order).

10. Conversion to various forms of Protestantism is over 100 years old, stop asking me

why and stop presuming its a new trend so you have a neat story to write about a

church you visited once.

9. Latin@s, by most accounts are becoming more secular, which for my academic

brethren means more articles to write, for las damas Catlicas, more velas to light for

their mijitos/as.

8. Writing about this surge to non-traditional religions: i.e. Latin@ Buddhists,

Muslims, Sikhs...is both necessary since there are small communities, but it is wish ful-

fillment to suggest that it is a trend that will see massive numbers in the near

future...why? (see #7)

7. U.S. Latin@s are easily 65% Catholic, and despite the wishes of many evangelical

churches, earnest PhD students, and inquisitive journalists--yeah, its still about La Vir-

gen.

6. Latin@ evangelicos are still so enamored of the family values, premillennial trope

sold by American evangelicals, that they are not interested in the social justice trope

sold by American mainline churches, sorry!

5. Latin@ Muslims tell researchers that their search for identity caused them to look to-

ward Islamic Spain as their spiritual foundation...some should do a paper on the post-

colonial implications of that identity formation...

4. Latin@ urban ministries appropriate as much African American popular culture as

any other secular outfit--only they dont self-reflect on why? Just tryint to get you

saved brother!

3. Prediction: There will be a continued move toward secularization, why? assimilation, I

know, no one wants to believe that some Latin@s wanna be white--de veras--its true

2. Prediction: The Latinization of the Catholic Church will continue until the financial re-

sources of the Church are dispersed equally, policy concerns of Latin@s will be on the

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