| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.1

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Robert R. Treviño. The Church in the Barrio: Mexican American Ethno-Catholicism in Houston. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2006. Pp. xiv, 308. Cloth $59.95, paper $22.50.

This is, quite simply, one of the best books that I have read on the Catholic experience in America, and I recommend it highly. Even so, I must start with a mild complaint: the author and the publisher should have cooperated a little more creatively in trying to convey just what the book is about. Judging from its title, for example, you might suspect that this book was about Mexican American Catholic participation in the institutional church, or maybe about the interaction between popular religious traditions and practices associated with the Mexican American community in Houston and the religion of the official church. Reading the introduction, you would more likely come to the conclusion that the book is more about the use of religion in the construction of identity than about religion per se (which is what Robert R. Treviño seems to say in several places). So what is the book really about? In the end, all this and more.

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