Broadening the Discourse at the Theological Table: An Overview of Latino Theology 1968-1993, Medina, Lara , Latino Studies Journal, September, Volume 5, Number 3, p.10-36, (1994)

Chicanos/as, Religion, and Healing: traditions and transformations, Medina, Lara , Teaching Religion and Healing, Oxford; New York, (2006)

Communing with the Dead: spiritual and cultural healing in Chicano/a communities, Medina, Lara , Religion and Healing in America, Oxford; New York, p.205-215, (2005)

Dias de los Muertos: Public Ritual, Community Renewal, and Popular Religion in Los Angeles, Medina, Lara; Cadena, Gilbert R. , Horizons of the Sacred: Mexican Traditions in U.S. Catholicism, Ithaca, NY, p.69-94, 165-166, (2002)

Dias de Muertos da Puebla a Los Angeles: Migrazione e regenerazione identitaria di un complesso rituale, Medina, Lara , Religioni e Società: Rivista di scienze sociali della religione, Volume 18, Italy, p.6-23, (1994)

Las Hermanas: Latinas and religious-political activism, Medina, Lara , Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America, Bloomington, IN, (2006)

Las Hermanas: Chicana/Latina religious-political activism in the U.S. Catholic Church, Medina, Lara , Philadelphia, PA, p.xii, 214 p., (2005)

Liberation Theology and Social Change: Chicanas and Chicanos in the Catholic Church, Cadena, Gilbert R.; Medina, Lara , Chicanas and Chicanos in Contemporary Society, Boston, p.99-111, (1996)

Nepantla Spirituality: negotiating multiple religious identities among US Latinas, Medina, Lara , Rethinking Latino(a) Religion and Identity, Cleveland, OH, (2006)

The Challanges and Consequences of being Latina, Catholic, and Political, Medina, Lara , Latino Religions and Civic Activism in the United States, New York, NY, p.97-110, (2005)

Transformative Struggle: the spirituality of Las Hermanas, Medina, Lara , New Horizons in Hispanic/Latino(a) Theology, Cleveland, OH, p.217-237, (2003)

Women: the U.S. Latina Religious Experience, Medina, Lara , Introduction to the U.S. Latina and Latino Religious Experience, Volume 2, Boston, MA, p.xii, 322 p., (2004)