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Article: La Llorona's Children: Religion, Life, and Death in the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands.(Book review)
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- Sociology of Religion
- Article date:
- December 22, 2007
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La Llorona's Children: Religion, Life, and Death in the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands, by LUIS D. LEON. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004, 331 pp.; $24.94 USD (paper), $55.00 USD (cloth).
This is an interesting book on an interesting topic. Written from the lived religion perspective, Professor Leon examines a host of topics connected to the experience of people of Mexican heritage living in the United States. Unafraid of controversy, he squeezes his interpretations, insights, and insults into some three hundred pages of text and notes. His purpose is to "re-imagine religion," bringing together politics, history, culture, ritual, and faith under the ...