Events & Calendars 2024 Lazerowitz Lecturer Lloyd Barba: "The Sacred Amid Exploitation: How Mexican Farmworkers Forged a Religious Movement in California"

In this lecture, Lloyd Barba, assistant professor of religion, will demonstrate how Mexican Pentecostal farmworkers carved out a robust socio-religious existence amid the harsh conditions of industrial agriculture in California, from the 1910s to the 1960s. This lecture is based on Barba's award-winning book, Sowing the Sacred: Mexican Pentecostal Farmworkers in California.

Sponsored by the Max and Etta Lazerowitz Lectureship Fund and the Office of the Provost and Dean of Faculty.

This lecture is free and open to the public.