Robert Chao Romero

When the Spirit Is Your Inheritance

“For the first time, in this important new book by noted Latinx religion scholar Jonathan Calvillo, I find my own lived experience of borderlands spirituality and culture reflected in the genre of memoir. With the analytic eye of a leading sociologist of religion, combined with the engaging prose of an artist, Calvillo movingly captures how the "Spirit in the borderlands" has been a source of strength and resilience for so many of our Latinx families in the face of cultural dislocation and ongoing change.”