By Thomas A. Tweed
While the booklet makes a speciality of Cuban exiles in Miami, it strikes past case learn because it explores greater matters pertaining to faith, id, and position. How do migrants relate to inheritor fatherland? How do they comprehend themselves once they were displaced? What function does faith play between those diasporic teams? construction in this examine of 1 exiled workforce, Tweed proposes a conception of diasporic faith that supplies to light up the reviews of different teams which have been displaced from their place of birth.
As the 1st book-length research of Cuban-American Catholicism, Tweed's e-book could be a useful source to students and scholars of not just spiritual experiences, American experiences, and Ethnic stories, but in addition those that research cultural anthropology, human geography, and Latin American history.
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