Popular Religion and Emerging Meanings: The Caribbean and South Florida

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

What is popular religion today? What are the shifting grounds and dynamics of popular religion, the devotions and expressions found among the popular classes, what some call ordinary theology? This panel shares empirical and theoretical work on specific contexts of popular religion and emerging meanings today, specifying the Puerto Rican, Cuban, and Haitian contexts, both on the island and mainland. A fourth specifically explores the shifting situatedness of popular religion in the case of emerging understandings of Mary among young adult Latinas from a diversity of origins outside the United States.

Sub Track

• Religions and Spiritualities

Session Organizer

• Bryan Thomas Froehle, St. Thomas University

Chair

• Ondina Cortes, St. Thomas University

Individual Presentations

• Our Lady of Charity and Cuban Reconciliation - Ondina Cortes, St. Thomas University

• Encounter in Haitian Popular Religion - Emmanuel Buteau, St Thomas University

• Constructing Lives in the 1.5 Generation: Religious Identity and Spirituality of College-age Latina Emerging Adults - Claudia H Herrera, St Thomas University

• Shifting Holy Ground? Popular Religiosity and the Influence of Pentecostalism on the Experience of Latino/a Catholics - Ricardo Gonzalez, St Thomas University