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The Saints of Santa Ana compares the experiences of Catholic and Evangelical Mexican immigrants-the two largest religious groupings in the city. Drawing on five years of participant observation and in-depth interviews, this book argues that religious affiliations set Catholics and Evangelicals along diverging trajectories with regard to ethnic identity. In particular, Calvillo argues, Catholics and Evangelicals have differing perspectives on collective memory and ethnic community. The Saints of Santa Ana offers a rich portrait of a fascinating American community.

In conversation with local author and historian Gustavo Arellano & Dr. Manuel G. Galaviz of the Scholar Holler Podcast, Dr. Calvillo will discuss how faith shapes a community of immigrants' sense of ethnic identity.

About the Scholar: Jonathan Calvillo is Assistant Professor of Sociology of Religion at Boston University School of Theology. A son of Mexican immigrants, Jonathan grew up in Fullerton, CA, then…