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Latinos convert to Islam for a variety of reasons, including disenchantment with the practices of Catholicism and the church establishment.
It is a paradox of our time that as the church establishment appears increasingly diminished in everything from social effect to attraction to the ministry, Catholic intellectual life, having escaped the long stultification of manual theology, has achieved significant power and vibrancy.
He does not present the variety of religious forms among Native American Christians simply as a celebration of cultural diversity: He recognizes that other believers, especially members of the church establishment, may reasonably question the orthodoxy and even the Christianity of many of these Catholic-influenced religious systems.
 
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