Indigenous Religious Traditions in Five Minutes - Molly Bassett
23. Do Chicanos practice Indigenous religious traditions?
Indigenous Religious Traditions in Five Minutes - Molly Bassett
Rudy Busto [+]
University of California, Santa Barbara
Rudy Busto is an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Religious Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research interests include: American religion, race and religion, and religions and science fiction. He authored the book King Tiger: The Religious Visions of Reies Lopez Tijerina, The Gospel According to Rice: The Next Asian American Christianity (2005) and has published articles for many journals including the Amerasian Journal and <>The Religious Studies Project.
Description
Chicano identity is bound to the political and cultural activism of the 1960s and early 1970s by Mexican-descent Americans rejecting assimilation in American society. The Chicano Movement, initiated as a coalition of several distinct local movements, coalesced at the end of the 1960s. As Mexicans, Chicanos inherited the legacy of the mestizaje ideal that interpreted Mexico’s history and destiny as the result of the biological and cultural blending of Iberia with indigenous Mexican, primarily Aztec/Nahuatl peoples.