Cesar Chavez

Pilgrimage and revolution: How Cesar Chavez married faith and ideology in landmark farmworkers’ march

By Lloyd Daniel Barba — April 5, 2023
(The Conversation) — A scholar of religion looks at how faith helped guide the labor rights icon in his organizing endeavors.

New book spotlights influence of Pentecostalism on California’s Mexican farmworkers

By Alejandra Molina — January 20, 2023
(RNS) — 'Sowing the Sacred: Mexican Pentecostal Farmworkers in California' recounts how 'divine healing' was seen as a pragmatic way to care for impoverished workers who lacked regular access to medical care.

The upside of ‘organized religion’ (COMMENTARY)

By Brad R. Fulton — April 7, 2016
(RNS) Throughout the country, a growing number of religious leaders and congregations are participating in grass-roots organizing to promote civic engagement, encourage political participation and address social issues at all levels of government.
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