Predicadores

Predicadores is a beautifully presented understanding of Latinx preachers in the intricacies of the immigrant context. Madrazo uses collaborative ethnography to show us the deep complexities and themes that ground the Latina immigrant church and its preachers, both male and female. This is not a how-to book, nor is it a dull analysis. It is a profound and heartfelt journey with a community of faith. The reader’s own faith will be inspired while learning at multiple levels. This is a timely book that informs and transforms our comprehension of immigrant communities and the role of faith. A study for preachers, scholars, and ethnographers.

~Elizabeth Conde-Frazier, Coordinator of Theological Entities, Association for Hispanic Theological Education

I read Tito Madrazo’s Predicadores: Hispanic Preaching and Immigrant Identity in the midst of the growing swell of protests across the globe in support of the Black Lives Matter movement in response to the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. In light of unbearable loss, the world cries out to #saytheirnames. It is poignant then that Madrazo writes about a community whose names must be hidden for their safety. This ethnographic collaboration about preaching is an important contribution because Madrazo reveals the faces of those whose names we cannot know. They become fully human as he permits us to hear their voices in this study about the preaching and ecclesial experiences of the evangelical Latinx community in North Carolina. As a result, I believe that Predicadores also succeeds in being an extended sermon about migrants, their lucha, and their abiding faith in God.

~Rev. Dr. Loida I. Martell, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean, Lexington Theological Seminary

In this groundbreaking ethnographic study, Tito Madrazo examines the preaching lives and practices of Hispanic immigrants in the United States. Madrazo not only welcomes these often-neglected voices into the North American homiletical conversation, but he also develops an exciting new method for the study of preaching. Both inspiring and informative,  Predicadores is a timely and vital contribution to the homiletical literature.

~Charles L. Campbell, James T. and Alice Mead Cleland Professor of Homiletics, Duke Divinity School

Anyone who ministers in a community with a growing Latino/a population would find [this] book insightful. Additionally, teachers of preaching should read the book as an example of contextual preaching.

~Kerwin Rodriguez, Journal of the Evangelical Homiletics Society