| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.1

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Book Review

Hispanic Methodists, Presbyterians, and Baptists in Texas. By Paul Barton. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006. x, 246 pp. Cloth, $50.00, ISBN 978-0-292-71291-1. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 978-0-292-71335-2.)

Sea la Luz: The Making of Mexican Protestantism in the American Southwest, 1829–1900. By Juan Francisco Martínez. (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006. xii, 196 pp. $24.95, ISBN 978–1–57441–222–2.)

Building on the foundations of doctoral dissertations, Paul Barton and Juan Francisco Martínez have produced two extensively researched and well-organized monographs that make valuable contributions to our understanding of the historical, cultural, and religious development of Hispanic Protestantism in the southwestern United States. In constructing their respective narratives, the authors have consulted a variety of primary and secondary sources that include official denominational minutes and other published materials such as newspapers (English- and Spanish-language), periodicals, and autobiographies and biographies.

Both authors are insiders who bring to their topics an intuitive and nuanced understanding of Hispanic Protestantism. At the same time, they do not allow their theological commitments to compromise their analyses. Because the preponderance of research and writing on this subject has been done by Anglo-American historians, the work of these two scholars is especially timely and relevant. Barton, a professor of Hispanic church studies at the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest, is a fourth-generation Mexican American United Methodist who actively participates in the denomination's Rio Grande Annual Conference. Martínez, a Mennonite Brethren pastor, is a faculty member at Fuller Theological Seminary where he teaches in the area of Hispanic studies. Like Barton, he acknowledges an affinity with Mexican American Protestantism that has shaped his personal identity.

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