Our Lady of Brave Change
Spiritual Imagination at the Heart of Strength & Resilience
Dr. Socorro (Coco) Castañeda is Co-Founder, with her teenage daughter Lupita, of Becoming Mujeres a firm that helps Latina mothers and daughters translate cultural expectations into opportunities. Dr. Castañeda is a Ford Foundation fellow and author of Our Lady of Everyday Life: La Virgen de Guadalupe and the Catholic Imagination of Mexican Women in America, (Oxford University Press, 2018). Her research has also been supported by the Hispanic Theological Initiative and The Louisville Institute. She is a former Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Santa Clara University. Dr. Castañeda is a sought-out speaker and expert in the areas of Mexican Popular Catholicism, Our Lady of Guadalupe devotion, LatinX cultual expectations, mother-daughter communication, and teenage girls and social pressures.
Spiritual Imagination at the Heart of Strength & Resilience
Socorro Castañeda (November 2019 | Brave Change). Posted in Featured Article.
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