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The Cursillo Movement in America: Catholics, Protestants, and Fourth-Day Spirituality New Edition
Author(s): Kristy Nabhan-Warren (Author)
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication Date: 30 Sept. 2013
- Edition: New
- Language: English
- Print length: 344 pages
- ISBN-10: 1469607158
- ISBN-13: 9781469607153
Book Description
The internationally growing Cursillo movement, or “”short course in Christianity,”” founded in 1944 by Spanish Catholic lay practitioners, has become popular among American Catholics and Protestants alike. This lay-led weekend experience helps participants recommit to and live their faith. Emphasising how American Christians have privileged the individual religious experience and downplayed denominational and theological differences in favour of a common identity as renewed people of faith, Kristy Nabhan-Warren focuses on cursillistas–those who have completed a Cursillo weekend–to show how their experiences are a touchstone for understanding these trends in post-1960s American Christianity.
Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork as well as historical research, Nabhan-Warren shows the importance of Latino Catholics in the spread of the Cursillo movement. Cursillistas’ stories, she argues, guide us toward a new understanding of contemporary Christian identities, inside and outside U.S. borders, and of the importance of globalising American religious boundaries.
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The internationally growing Cursillo movement, or “short course in Christianity,” founded in 1944 by Spanish Catholic lay practitioners, has become popular among American Catholics and Protestants alike. This lay-led weekend experience helps participants recommit to and live their faith. Emphasizing how American Christians have privileged the individual religious experience and downplayed denominational and theological differences in favor of a common identity as renewed people of faith, Kristy Nabhan-Warren focuses on cursillistas–those who have completed a Cursillo weekend–to show how their experiences are a touchstone for understanding these trends in post-1960s American Christianity.
About the Author
Kristy Nabhan-Warren is the V. O. and Elizabeth Kahl Figge Fellow in Catholic Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Iowa, USA and author of The Virgin of El Barrio: Marian Apparitions, Catholic Evangelizing and Mexican American Activism.
