New Mexico's Moses
496 pages, 6 x 9
3 drawings, 6 halftones
Hardcover
Release Date:01 Jun 2022
ISBN:9780826363756
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New Mexico's Moses

Reies López Tijerina and the Religious Origins of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement

University of New Mexico Press
In New Mexico's Moses, Ramón A. Gutiérrez dives deeply into Reies López Tijerina's religious formation during the 1940s and 1950s, illustrating how his Pentecostal foundation remained an integral part of his psyche even as he migrated toward social-movement politics. An Assemblies of God evangelist turned Pentecostal itinerant preacher, Tijerina used his secularized apocalyptic theology to inspire the dispossessed heirs of Spanish and Mexican land grants fighting to recuperate ancestral lands throughout northern New Mexico and the Southwest. Using Tijerina's collected sermons, Gutiérrez demonstrates the ways in which biblical prophecy influenced Tijerina throughout his life from his early days as a preacher to his leadership of the Alianza Federal de Mercedes. Tijerina sought justice for those who had lost their lands and was determined to eradicate the most egregious forms of racism and to valorize the language and culture of mexicanos. Translated into English for the first time here, Tijerina's sermons serve as a blueprint for the religious origins of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement.

Ramón A. Gutiérrez is the Preston and Sterling Morton Distinguished Service Professor of History emeritus at the University of Chicago. He is the author of many publications including When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846 and the coeditor, with Kathleen Belew, of A Field Guide to White Supremacy.

Acknowledgments
A Note on Ethnic and Racial Terminology

Introduction
Chapter One. The Social Origins of the Tijerina Clan
Chapter Two. The Origins of Pentecostalism
Chapter Three. Becoming an Evangelist
Chapter Four. Reies Tijerina's Ministry
Chapter Five. Of Revelation and Reies
Chapter Six. Will He Find Any Faith on Earth . . . ?
Chapter Seven. The Valley of Peace
Chapter Eight. Restoring New Mexico's Land Grants
Chapter Nine. Of Prophets, Ancestors, and Tijerinas

Epilogue
Note on Translation
Appendix One. ¿Hallará Fe en La Tierra . . . ? / Will He Find Any Faith on Earth . . . ?
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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