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Sea la luz

Mart�inez, Juan Francisco, 1957-

Sea la luz the making of Mexican Protestantism in the American Southwest, 1829-1900 / [electronic resource] : Juan Francisco Mart�inez. - Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, c2006. - xii, 196 p. : ill., maps. - Al filo ; no. 4 . - Al filo ; no. 4. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 176-187) and index.

"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.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.






Mexican American Protestants--History--Southwest, New--19th century.


Southwest, New--Church history--19th century.


Electronic books.

BR563.M49 / M33 2006eb

280/.40896872079

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