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Sea la luz : the making of Mexican Protestantism in the American Southwest, 1829-1900 /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Denton, Tex. :
University of North Texas Press,
©2006.
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| Colección: | Al filo ;
no. 4. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "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.