Black Puerto Rican Identity and Religious Experience : University Press of Florida : 9780813060255 : 0813060257 : 03 Mar 2014 : ?A well-rounded and perceptive analysis of why Puerto Ricans have converted en masse to Protestantism, especially Pentecostalism, as well as how the Catholic hierarchy has grappled with greater religious heterogeneity.??Journal of Latin American Studies ?This book presages the new scholarship on religion so badly needed in Puerto Rican studies. ?[E]legantly weaves history, politics, and ecclesiastical endeavors into a narrative that is preeminently about faith.??Centro Journal ?Records religious diversity and complexity in a town that is usually observed through racial lenses that render it homogeneous and fixed in the past. ?[C]ontributes to the understanding of the deep interrelation between religion, spirituality, identity, and race in contemporary Puerto Rico and part of its Diaspora.??Journal of the American Academy of Religion Loíza is a Puerto