The opinion is oddly lacking in this LA Times opinion piece (and the link didn't work but that's par for the course with the LAT of late) but it did give us the heads up about Photographer Camilo Jose Vergara's book, "How The Other Half Worships." From Amazon and Publishers Weekly, "Vergara, who has been photographing 'ghetto' and 'storefront' churches in several major U.S. cities for the past 30 years, avoids any overarching academic thesis about the religiosity of the urban poor, in large part because their religious institutions are, more often than not, fascinatingly eclectic, idiosyncratic and not easily traced to one specific Christian tradition." This one is going on our Christmas wish list.
Sunday, November 30, 2008
How The Other Half Worships
The opinion is oddly lacking in this LA Times opinion piece (and the link didn't work but that's par for the course with the LAT of late) but it did give us the heads up about Photographer Camilo Jose Vergara's book, "How The Other Half Worships." From Amazon and Publishers Weekly, "Vergara, who has been photographing 'ghetto' and 'storefront' churches in several major U.S. cities for the past 30 years, avoids any overarching academic thesis about the religiosity of the urban poor, in large part because their religious institutions are, more often than not, fascinatingly eclectic, idiosyncratic and not easily traced to one specific Christian tradition." This one is going on our Christmas wish list.
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