Description
Book SynopsisA look through a Latinx lens at how the Episcopal/Anglican church can minister to and with the Latinx community
Unmasking Latinx Ministry is a unique look at the history of the Episcopal Church in the last fifty years, including a bold and insightful analysis of the institutionalization of Latinx ministries. This history is contextualized within the struggles of the Episcopal Church in terms of race, gender, and sexuality.
Through a Latinx lens, the author brings fresh eyes to the challenges faced by the Episcopal Church’s ministry with and among Latinx persons and communities. Along with the historical analysis and insight, the author brings a background and formation in Episcopal churches in Puerto Rico, Texas, California and Central New York, as well as more than fifteen years of experience in a multicultural and multiracial, monolingual and bilingual congregations in New York City. Combining this history and ministry experience, the author explores specific areas where Episcopal/Anglican traditions speak to Latinx ministries and what Latinx persons and communities offer the Episcopal Church today.
Trade Review"The power of Guzmán's work is the ability to place in tension a critical review of the history and state of Latinx Ministries in the church and balance it with a deep sense of love, hope, and admiration for the best of what the church can be and do. This is an incredbily useful and versatile book, to be read and understood in many contexts—by those interested in Episcopal institutional history, seminarians wanting to deepen their understanding of Latinx concerns in the church, and clergly and lay leadership at all levels that care about church transformation." —Francisco J. Garcia, Jr., Anglican Theological Review
Table of ContentsForeword
The Right Reverence Jennifer A. Reddall, Diocese of Arizona
Introduction
Part I: (Re)Framing the Historical Context 1. LATINX Ministries: Before Institutionalization
2. LATINX Ministries: A Program of the Church
Chronology
Part II: Unmasking and (Re)Framing LATINX Ministries 3. Challenges: Things Done and Left Undone 4. An Epistemic Challenge 5. Building upon Anglican Traditions: Possibilities
Conclusion Bibliography
