Culto y Vida: A Conference on Religiosity
and Puerto Rican Studies
Thursday, May 5, 3:30-8:00 pm
PROGRAM
3:30-3:45 Introductions
Edwin Meléndez
Director
Center for Puerto Rican Studies
3:45-4:05 Welcoming Address
Institutionalized Religion and Lived Religion: Knowing the Difference and Lasting Long Enough to Talk about It
Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo
Professor Emeritus of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies
Brooklyn College
4:15-5:25 Panel: Comparative Approaches to Study of Religion
David Badillo, Moderator and Respondent
Associate Professor
Latin American and Puerto Rican Studies
Lehman College
A Footnote on Critical Epistemology and the Study of Latino/a Religion
Samuel Cruz
Assistant Professor of Church and Society
Union Theological Seminary
Creole Religion, Kindred Spirits and Spirited Literary Identities
Marguerite Fernández Olmos
Professor of Modern Language
Brooklyn College
5:25-6:15 Interlude
6:15 – 7:45 Panel: The Unfolding of Puerto Rican Religiosity in New York City: Awakening and Mobilization
María Pérez y González, Moderator and Respondent>
Associate Professor
Puerto Rican and Latino Studies
Brooklyn College
Fuego a la Lata: The Puerto Rican Experience in New York of Mobilizing Institutions and of Institutions Mobilizing
Ana María Díaz-Stevens
Professor Emerita of Church and Society
Union Theological Seminary
The Latino Religious Experience and Political Engagement in the United States
Carlos Vargas Ramos
Research Associate
Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños
A Return to the National Parish? How Puerto Ricans paved the way for Mexicans and other recent Latino Immigrants in New York’s Catholic Church.
Alyshia Gálvez
Assistant Professor
Latin American and Puerto Rican Studies
Lehman College
Culto y Vida Q and A
