![]() ![]() Many having undergone a “double-diaspora” with family migrating to Latin America from Europe in the late 19 th-century, then migrating to the United States of America only a few generations later. With the strongest surveyed identity marker, 95% of Latinxs Jews in the USA prefer to self-identify first as Jews. Requisitioned by an arm of the American Jewish Committee (AJC) and underwritten by the Ford Foundation ”. Of the other 1 out of 4 USA Latinxs, it can be estimated that approximately 200,000 of them are Latinxs Jews according to a 2015 study “ carried out by David Ayon, senior strategist for the opinion research group Latino Decisions. With Old Testament prioritized minimally from clergy, Christ-identifiers do not know how to plumb its pages for the reflection, resilience, and resistance necessary for times such as these. įor centuries Christ-identified communities cultivated collective sacred spaces in church and home for education and edification. Why don’t pastors or priests preach from the Old Testament regularly? Church leaders themselves recognize a nervousness or unwillingness on their part to engage their Old Testament regularly. This is not surprising because a walk-through of online discussion boards and groups for preachers, pastors, and priests reveals a relevant and debated question. Most significant to this paper, there is no survey data to draw from, thus, illuminating the low percentage of USA Latinxs that are Old Testament or Hebrew Bible literate. ![]() This means that of the 3 out of 4 Latinxs that are Christ-identified, most “seldom to never” participate in traditional spaces for encountering scripture. Additionally, 50% of USA Latinxs indicated that they “seldom to never” participate in prayer, scripture study, or religious education groups. From the same Religious Landscape Study, over 45% of those Christ-identified claim to read scripture “at least once a week”, 33% claimed they “seldom to never” read scripture. If broadened out, to gain a general pulse, more than 3 out of 4 Latinxs in the USA are Christ-identified. This article calls scholars and people of the faith communities to look at the ways USA Latinxs imbibe information and how Hebrew Bible/Old Testament can be used as a tool to strengthen biblical education for the purposes of critical political engagement in the age of Trump.Īccording to the 2014 Pew Research Center’s Religious Landscape Study, 77% of USA Latinxs surveyed identify as of a Christian denomination. ![]()
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