Jonathan E. Calvillo is Assistant Professor of Sociology of Religion at Boston University School of Theology. A son of Mexican immigrants, born and raised in Southern California, he holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California at Irvine. His scholarship centers on the sociology of religion, race and ethnicity, and immigration, especially within Latinx communities.

Winner, HTI Book Prize, Hispanic Theological Initiative

"I highly recommend The Saints of Santa Ana. Calvillo does a superb job in weaving together these multifaceted elements that could each individually be a topic for a book. The vivid ethnographic descriptions, along with a robust theoretical framework, ground Calvillo's analyses of participants'understandings of faith, place, and ethnicity." -- Rodrigo Serrao, American Journal of Sociology

"This is an engaging, well-researched book that links immigration, religion, and identity." -- I. Coronado, CHOICE

"Calvillo's mastery of his subject matter allows him to converse with a wide variety of ongoing religious studies conversations including those that touch on lived religion, religion and space, religion and ethnic identity formation and maintenance, religion and emotions, and the experience of divine communication. As a result, this book demonstrates decisively the burgeoning importance of research on Latinx religions within the larger field of North American religions. The Saints of Santa Ana is a welcome addition to this growing literature and will be an asset in both undergraduate and graduate classrooms." -- Brett Hendrickson, Reading Religion

"Drawing on years of ethnographic inquiry, Jonathan Calvillo provides a fascinating picture of the routine and sacred ways that Catholicism and Evangelicalism structure daily life and understandings of group boundaries among Latinx immigrants. Breaking new ground with its analytical rigor and impressive empirical scope, The Saints of Santa Ana is beautifully written and is essential reading for race, religion, and immigration scholars alike." -- G. Cristina Mora, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley

"Jonathan Calvillo's The Saints of Santa Ana is a deeply moving, richly detailed account of life in the most Mexican community in the United States. Calvillo's historical and ethnographic account of the sacred nature of space, belonging, and identity deepens our best understandings of religion and Latinidad. A must-read for any serious scholar of religion, immigration, or Latina/o/x studies." -- Edward Orozco Flores, author of Jesus Saved an Ex-Con: Political Activism and Redemption after Incarceration