Diálogo Volume 16 Number 1 Article 3 2013 The Resurrection Project of Mexican Catholic Chicago: Spiritual Activism and Liberating Praxis Karen Mary Davalos Loyola Marymount University Follow this and additional works at: https://via.library.depaul.edu/dialogo Part of the Latin American Languages and Societies Commons Recommended Citation Davalos, Karen Mary (2013) "The Resurrection Project of Mexican Catholic Chicago: Spiritual Activism and Liberating Praxis," Diálogo: Vol. 16 : No. 1 , Article 3. Available at: https://via.library.depaul.edu/dialogo/vol16/iss1/3 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Center for Latino Research at Via Sapientiae. It has been accepted for inclusion in Diálogo by an authorized editor of Via Sapientiae. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. The Resurrection Project of Mexican Catholic Chicago: Spiritual Activism and Liberating Praxis Karen Mary Davalos Loyola Marymount University of a communal consciousness—as profound integration Abstract: Drawing on historical archives, oral history in- of lived experience, faith and culture (Anzaldúa, 2000).3 terviews and ethnographic material, this essay explores the The Resurrection Project/El Proyecto Resurrección is history of Chicago’s “The Resurrection Project”/El Proyecto a neighborhood development corporation whose mission Resurrección, a community development organization that has much in common with Chicana/o social movements, builds healthy communities through housing and critical faith-based community organizing and Catholic activism consciousness. The mission of the organization emerges in the United States (Muñoz, 1989; Swartz, 2008; Wilson, from the lived realities of Mexican Catholic Chicago, 2008; Wood, 2002; Interfaith Funders, 2000).4 Orlando formulated in large part by the relationship between Espín’s observations about Latina/o faith as located in the U.S.