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In the wake of the Mexican-American War, competing narratives of religious conquest and re-conquest were employed by Anglo American and ethnic Mexican Californians to make sense of their place in North America. These “invented traditions” had a profound impact on North American religious and ethnic relations, serving to bring elements of Catholic history within the Protestant fold of the United States’ national history as well as playing an integral role in the emergence of the early Chicano/a movement. Many Protestant Anglo Americans understood their settlement in the far Southwest as following in the footsteps of the colonial project begun by Catholic Spanish missionaries. In contrast, Californios—Mexican-Americans and Chicana/os—stressed deep connections to a pre-Columbian past over to their own Spanish heritage. Thus, as Anglo Americans fashioned themselves as the spiritual heirs to the Spanish frontier, many ethnic Mexicans came to see themselves as the spiritual heirs to a southwestern Aztec homeland.

Regionalism --- Space --- Historiography --- Indigenous peoples --- Aztlán. --- Chicomostoc --- Chicomoztoc --- Lugar de las Siete Cuevas --- Place of the Herons --- Place of the Seven Caves --- Aztec mythology --- Aztecs --- Geographical myths --- Mexican Americans --- Aboriginal peoples --- Aborigines --- Adivasis --- Indigenous populations --- Native peoples --- Native races --- Ethnology --- Historical criticism --- History --- Authorship --- Human geography --- Nationalism --- Interregionalism --- Religious aspects. --- Ethnic identity. --- Origin --- Ethnic identity --- Criticism --- Mexico --- California, Southern --- Arkadia (Greece) --- Southern California --- Arcadia (Greece) --- Arkadhía (Greece) --- Αρκαδία (Greece) --- Anáhuac --- Estados Unidos Mexicanos --- Maxico --- Méjico --- Mekishiko --- Meḳsiḳe --- Meksiko --- Meksyk --- Messico --- Mexique (Country) --- República Mexicana --- Stany Zjednoczone Meksyku --- United Mexican States --- United States of Mexico --- מקסיקו --- メキシコ --- Relations --- Ethnic relations. --- Historiography.

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Bridging the fields of Religion and Latina/o Studies, this book fills a gap by examining the “spiritual” rhetoric and practices of the Chicano movement. Bringing new theoretical life to biblical studies and Chicana/o writings from the 1960s, such as El Plan Espiritual de Aztlán and El Plan de Santa Barbara, Jacqueline M. Hidalgo boldly makes the case that peoples, for whom historical memories of displacement loom large, engage scriptures in order to make and contest homes. Movement literature drew upon and defied the scriptural legacies of Revelation, a Christian scriptural text that also carries a displaced homing dream. Through the slipperiness of utopian imaginations, these texts become places of belonging for those whose belonging has otherwise been questioned. Hidalgo’s elegant comparative study articulates as never before how Aztlán and the new Jerusalem’s imaginative power rest in their ambiguities, their ambivalence, and the significance that people ascribe to them. .

Bible-Theology. --- Religion --- Aztlán --- Philosophy. --- Religious aspects. --- Chicomostoc --- Chicomoztoc --- Lugar de las Siete Cuevas --- Place of the Herons --- Place of the Seven Caves --- Aztec mythology --- Aztecs --- Geographical myths --- Mexican Americans --- Origin --- Ethnic identity --- Religion and sociology. --- Spirituality. --- Ethnology-Latin America. --- United States-Study and teaching. --- Biblical Studies. --- Religion and Society. --- Latino Culture. --- American Culture. --- Spiritual-mindedness --- Philosophy --- Spiritual life --- Religion and society --- Religious sociology --- Society and religion --- Sociology, Religious --- Sociology and religion --- Sociology of religion --- Sociology --- Ethnology --- Bible --- Theology. --- United States --- Study and teaching. --- Bible—Theology. --- Ethnology—Latin America. --- United States—Study and teaching. --- Bible. --- Abūghālimsīs --- Apocalipse (Book of the New Testament) --- Apocalisse (Book of the New Testament) --- Apocalypse (Book of the New Testament) --- Apocalypse of John --- Apocalypse of St. John --- Apocalypsis Johannis --- Apocalypsis S. Johannis --- Apokalypse (Book of the New Testament) --- Apokalypsin --- Book of Revelation --- Johannes-Apokalypse --- Johannesapokalypse --- Johannesoffenbarung --- Offenbarung des Johannes --- Revelation (Book of the New Testament) --- Revelation of St. John --- Revelation of St. John the Divine --- Revelation to John --- Ruʼyā (Book of the New Testament) --- Sifr al-Ruʼyā --- Yohan kyesirok --- Apokalipsa św. Jana --- Apokalipsa świętego Jana --- Criticism, interpretation, etc.