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Two pastors reach across the racial divide
Executive Director of the USC Cecil Murray Center for Community Engagement Rev. Mark Whitlock was featured in an OC Register article that discusses his efforts to decrease racial tensions between Latinos and …
The Oxford Handbook of Religion and the American News Media
The Oxford Handbook of Religion and the American News Media Diane Winston, Editor (Oxford University Press: 2012) Whether the issue is the rise of religiously inspired terrorism, …
Gospel Luminaries Encounter Digital Archive
In recent months, a group of Gospel music pioneers came to USC to get a peek at the Gospel Music History Archive, a joint project of the USC Digital Library, the Center …
Axis Mundi: A Little Prayer Group on the Edge of Nairobi
On the Wednesday that marked the midpoint in the recent weeklong Pentecostal and Charismatic Research Initiative (PCRI) conference outside Nairobi, about 30 research fellows and CRCC staffers trundled onto a pair of …
Contributing to the religious strength of the city
Because of their unique history and location, Latinos have the opportunity to make a significant impact on religious life in Los Angeles today. Their spiritual vibrancy is contributing to the growth of …
Where are we going in Los Angeles?
The word mañana has many connotations. Though it literally means “tomorrow,” in common parlance it usually just means “not today.” For some mañana carries the negative connotation of putting things off indefinitely. …
Varieties of Latino Pentecostals, and other Protestants, in Los Angeles
The greater Los Angeles area serves as an excellent location to look at how Pentecostalism has developed among Latinos. Modern Pentecostalism began in Los Angeles, but now new generations of adherents are …
A new Catholicism in Los Angeles?
As stated earlier, Latino Catholicism in Los Angeles is growing numerically, even as the percentage of Catholics in the Latino community is going down. Catholicism in Los Angeles is already a predominantly …
Protestant and Catholic relations in Latino Los Angeles
After the Southwest was taken over by the United States, the “Mexican” communities of the region felt under siege in many areas, including their religious practices. Maintaining a strong Mexican (often popular) …
Latinos and their churches. Who is in charge?
Historically, Latinos have been in charge of very few institutions in Los Angeles. Until recently, Latinos were even on the margins of Catholicism in the region. The only major exception has been …
Religion, politics, and national participation, Latino style
Religiously oriented Latinos, Catholic and Protestant, tend to create tensions for the traditional political categories in Los Angeles and the U.S. On issues like abortion, same sex marriage or religious influence in …
Religious and ethnic identity: is there a link?
There does seem to be a relationship between religious practices and ethnic identity in Los Angeles. Traditionally it has been assumed that there was a relationship between Catholicism and Latino ethnic identity. …
By the Numbers
Latinos became the largest minority group in the United States during the first decade of the twentyfirst century. The Latino presence is even more pronounced in Los Angeles since they represent 50 …
The Latino Church Next
The Religious Scene in Latino Los Angeles 2012 To be a Latino Christian is fundamentally to believe that the God who continues to interact with humanity will continue to do so in …
Where are Evangelicals in the 2012 U.S. Presidential Campaign?
Four years ago this week, Rick Warren and Saddleback Valley Community Church in Orange County, California hosted the first campaign meeting of presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain. Warren called it …
The Dream Center: Spirit-Infused and Socially Engaged Urban Ministry
This article appeared in PentecoStudies: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Research on the Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements (Vol 11, No 1). Abstract: In this article we investigate the Dream Center, a large-scale Pentecostal …
CalEMA Resource List
The following resources are arranged by organization. To view the resources, click on the organization’s name. [iframe src=”http://www-scf.usc.edu/~mhuntley/crcc-CalEMA.html” height=”2000″] Photo Credit: State Farm/Flickr
Black Church Barrios: African American Churches Adapt to Latino Neighbors
CRCC Director of Research Richard Flory and Executive Director of the Cecil Murray Center for Community Engagement Mark Whitlock have appeared in an article in Christianity Today discussing the effect of demographic …
An Evangelical Changing of the Guard?
This post originally appeared at Trans/Missions, the USC Knight Chair in Media and Religion site. At about the same time that President Barack Obama came out in favor of gay marriage, and …
Faith Community’s Call to Action: 20 Years After the L.A. Riots
Brie Loskota testified at a public hearing hosted by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and the Los Angeles City Human Relations Commission. The event, “L.A. Civil Unrest: A Community Blueprint for the Next 20 …