{"product_id":"hispanic-methodists-presbyterians-and-baptists-in-texas","title":"Hispanic Methodists, Presbyterians, and Baptists in Texas","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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, \u003ci\u003elos Protestantes\u003c\/i\u003e have melded Anglo-American Protestantism with Mexican-American culture to create a truly indigenous, authentic, and empowering faith tradition in the Mexican-American community.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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 \u003ci\u003elos Protestantes\u003c\/i\u003e 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 in \u003ci\u003elos Protestantes\u003c\/i\u003e' 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"By Paul Barton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53615839019388,"sku":"9780292713352","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780292713352.jpg?v=1727700652","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/hispanic-methodists-presbyterians-and-baptists-in-texas","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}