MIGUEL DE LA TORRE was born in Cuba months before the Castro Revolution and came to the U.S. with his family when he was 6 months old. De La Torre’s early childhood was marked by a spiritual hybridity based on his Catholic and Santería faiths and up-bringing. At 19, he began a real estate company that proved to be financially successful, but in his 20s, dissolved the company to attend Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, earning an M. Div. degree. He earned a doctorate from Temple University in social ethics and currently is a professor at Iliff School of Theology in Denver. He specializes in applying a social scientific approach to Latino/a religiosity within this country, liberation theologies in the Caribbean and Latin America, and postmodern/postcolonial social theory.