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Author Martínez, Juan Francisco, 1957-

Title Sea la luz : the making of Mexican Protestantism in the American Southwest, 1829-1900 / Juan Francisco Martínez
Published Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 196 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Al filo ; no. 4
Al filo ; no. 4.
Contents "Planting the institutions of freedom" -- Protestant attitudes toward the conquest of the Southwest -- "Unfit for the duties and privileges of citizens" -- Anglo American Protestant attitudes toward the Mexicans of the Southwest -- "Making good citizens out of the Mexicans" -- Motivations for Protestant mission work among Mexican Americans -- "Yet many do not declare themselves for fear" -- Protestant mission efforts prior to the Civil War -- "Teaching them to be law-abiding, industrious and thrifty citizens" -- Mexican American Protestantism in Texas -- "A slumbering people" -- Mexican American Protestantism in the territory of New Mexico -- "Doing what he could" -- Mexican American Protestantism in Colorado, the territory of Arizona, and California -- "A power for the uplifting of the Mexican race" -- Characteristics of the nineteenth-century Mexican American Protestant community -- Conclusion : beginnings of a new subculture
Summary Mexican Protestantism was born in the encounter between Mexican Catholics and Anglo American Protestants, after the United States ventured into the South west and wrested territory from Mexico in the early nineteenth century. This book tells the story of Mexican converts and churches they developed through the records of Protestant missionaries
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-187) and index
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Subject Mexican American Protestants -- Southwest, New -- History -- 19th century
RELIGION -- Christianity -- Protestant.
Mexican American Protestants
Protestantismus
SUBJECT Southwest, New -- Church history -- 19th century
Subject New Southwest
USA -- Südweststaaten
Mexikaner.
Genre/Form Church history
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781435624580
1435624580
1433710390
9781433710391
9781574413939
1574413937