Spiritual Impulse of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement, 1965-1975

In this presentation, Professor Gastón Espinosa compares and contrasts the religious impulse and faith-based activism of Reies Lopez Tijerina and his land grant struggle in New Mexico with Cesar Chavez's farm worker activism in California. About Professor Espinosa Dr. Gastón Espinosa is the Arthur V. Stoughton Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Claremont McKenna College. He specializes in AMERICAN RELIGIOUS HISTORY, U.S. Latino Religions, Pentecostal/Charismatic MOVEMENTS, AMERICAN RELIGION and politics, AMERICAN religion and film.  He grew up in southern California and is a graduate of Princeton Seminary, Harvard University, and the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he earned his Ph.D. Espinosa has held visiting academic and fellowship appointments at Dartmouth College, Northwestern University, U.C. Santa Barbara, and the National Humanities Center Institute for Advanced Studies. He has won a number of fellowships and awards, including in 2011-2012 a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship at the National Humanities Center Institute for Advanced Studies (NC). For more information, visit his website here [https://gastonespinosa.wordpress.com/about/].  _Refreshments will be served._