Reporting the findings of a four-year ethnographic study conducted by the Religion and Immigration Project (RIP) at the University of San Francisco, the anthology explores the complex ways religion supports and resists assimilation into United States civic life. Investigating five ethnic populations—Chinese, Filipino, Vietnamese, Mexican, and Salvadoran immigrants, it builds on scholarship that documents the multiple identities, complex negotiations, and diversity across geographic terrains.

Imagine the Golden Gate Bridge … a span striking in shape, color, and line; a structure held up by multiple strands of braided steel wire. Keep this image in mind, because it is key to understanding Cecilia González-Andrieu’s Bridge to Wonder: Art as Gospel of Beauty. The author uses the Golden Gate Bridge as a recurring metaphor in this work of theological aesthetics in which she demonstrates “interlacing,” her method of engagement with the theological and the artistic.

Suffering and Salvation in Ciudad Juarez, by Nancy Pineda-Madrid is a short yet multi-layered text, in which she mounts a poignant critique of Anselm’s doctrine of salvation by analyzing how society overlooks the ritualistic killing of women in Ciudad Juarez. She outlines the shortcomings of Anselm’s innovative yet often misconstrued theology and makes a case for an alternative vision that shifts the notion of salvation from an individual right relationship with God to a communal understanding of salvation that necessitates right relation between humans, creation and God. This shift forces theologians to respond to instances of evil in the world.

Vibrant acts of devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe create sacred space across national borders, in public streets and deserted highways, through brief prayers and exhausting marches, from rural villas to bustling urban spaces. Such devotion cuts across divisions. It links male and female, public action and private faith, ‘official’ Catholicism and ‘popular’ religion. Elaine Peña illustrates this in her insightful book, Performing Piety.

UN PAPA AMERICANO: PAPA FRANCISCO DE ARGENTINA
Gilberto Cavazos-González, OFM and various members of ACHTUS

DES-COLONIALIDAD Y TEOLOGÍA DE LA LIBERACIÓN: una exploración del desarrollo del “pensamiento des-colonial” y sus implicaciones para las teologías latinoamericanas de la liberación

Ary Fernández Albán
Emmanuel College at the Toronto School of Theology

SCHOLAR AMONG SCHOLARS, HISPANIC AMONG HISPANICS: Justo’s Legacy to the Church at Large

Stephen Bevans, SVD
Catholic Theological Union, Chicago

Tongue Twisters and Shibboleths: On Decolonial Gestures in Latin@ Theology

Néstor Medina
Regent University School of Divinity

From the Editor
For the June 2013 Issue of the JHLT volume 18.2

Bernando Campos. De la Reforma Protestante a la Pentecostalidad de la Iglesia: Debate sobre el Pentecostalismo en América Latina.

Quito: Ediciones Consejo Latinoamericano de Iglesias, 1997, pp.112, $5.00.