Sea la luz : the making of Mexican Protestantism in the American Southwest, 1829-1900 / / Juan Francisco Martinez.

• Superior document: Al filo ; no. 4
• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Martinez, Juan Francisco, 1957-
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Series: Al filo ; no. 4.
• Physical Description: xii, 196 p. :; ill., maps.

Table of 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.