Holy Ghost and fire: Azusa St. and Mexican Pentecostal origins -- Victory is coming now: Mexican Pentecostals in Texas -- Their salvation may depend on us: missionary origins in Texas -- The gringos have control: Fransisco Olazábal's reformation in the borderlands -- Pentecostal origins in the Southwest and the struggle for self-determination -- The challenges of freedom: Mexican American leadership in the Southwest -- We preach the truth: Azusa St. and Puerto Rican Pentecostal origins and expansion -- The "Puerto Rican problem": the struggle for integration, independence, and rebirth -- Spirit and power: Puerto Rican Pentecostalism in New York city -- Your daughters shall prophesy: the uphill struggle of women in ministry -- Righteousness and justice: faith-based action for social change -- Balancing the horizontal with the vertical: Latino growth, social views, and influence in national politics.
Summary:
"Seeks to provide a history of the Latino AG [Assemblies of God] that can also serve as a case study and window into the larger Latino Pentecostal, Evangelical, and Protestant movements along with the changing flow of North American religious history." (page 2).
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