This book will analyze the spiritual impulse of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement (el movimiento) by exploring the critical role that combinative religious beliefs, traditions, practices, rhetoric, symbols, art, and music played in the movement’s leaders, organizations, foundational texts and struggles throughout the Southwest from 1965-1975. It will explore the political spirituality of Mexican American Catholicism, Mainline, Evangelical, and Pentecostal Protestantism, Mesoamerican and combinative spiritualities, practices, and symbols, literature (e.g., Poem, I am Joaquín), multi-racial cooperation and alliances (Poor People’s March via Tijerina), and institutional boundaries by showing how Mexican American/Chicanx activists worked across boundaries in church, politics, unionization, education, media, and other. This project also draws on diverse knowledge communities in its pluralistic scope and vision and will help amplify not only marginalized voice, but also one of the most overlooked and marginalized aspects of their voices in the U.S. today – their religious influences and impulses. Finally, this project seeks to deepen and extend efforts to build a more just, equitable, and democratic future by examining the critical contributions that Mexican Americans made to the larger civil rights struggle and U.S. history since the 1960s. It will complement the work on Black civil rights.