"Dr. Barton's book will provide an arena for significant dialogue
among scholars, as well as between Catholics and Protestants, on
the nature and significance of Hispanic Protestantism in the United
States.... There is no question that this book is a significant
contribution to the field. Indeed, there is no other book like it."
-- Justo L. Gonza lez, author of the highly praised volumes The
Story of Christianity and History of Christian Thought and other
major works
The question of how one can be both Hispanic and Protestant has
perplexed Mexican Americans in Texas ever since Anglo-American
Protestants began converting their Mexican Catholic neighbors early
in the nineteenth century. Mexican-American Protestants have faced
the double challenge of being a religious minority within the
larger Mexican-American community and a cultural minority within
their Protestant denominations. As they have negotiated and sought
to reconcile these two worlds over nearly two centuries, los
Protestantes have melded Anglo-American Protestantism with
Mexican-American culture to create a truly indigenous, authentic,
and empowering faith tradition in the Mexican-American
community.
This book presents the first comparative history of Hispanic
Methodists, Presbyterians, and Baptists in Texas. Covering a broad
sweep from the 1830s to the 1990s, Paul Barton examines how
Mexican-American Protestant identities have formed and evolved as
los Protestantes interacted with their two very different
communities in the barrio and in the Protestant church. He looks at
historical trends and events that affected Mexican-American
Protestant identity at different periods and discusses why and how
shifts inlos Protestantes' sense of identity occurred. His research
highlights the fact that while Protestantism has traditionally
served to assimilate Mexican Americans into the dominant U.S.
society, it has also been transformed into a vehicle for expressing
and transmitting Hispanic culture and heritage by its
Mexican-American adherents.
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