City life is complicated. Religious expressions within cities are even more difficult to ascertain. Cruz brings together scholars who explore marginalized religious spaces within cities to discover that what people claim to believe in theory, what they say about their faith, and how they live out that faith can be quite incongruent. Most religious scholars miss this because they fail to consider the complicated ethnic, cultural, and political realities of the everyday. As a corrective, this book provides us with a liberative critical reflection on the praxis of the disenfranchised.

Miguel A. De La Torre, professor of Social Ethics and Latinx Studies, Iliff School of Theology

Samuel Cruz is a major prophetic voice who understands that urban Christian visions and witnesses constitute much of the best of our future!

Cornel West, Union Theological Seminary