| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 38.3

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 38.3 | The History Cooperative

*The Church in the Barrio: Mexican American Ethno-Catholicism in Houston.* By Roberto R. Treviño. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xiv + 308 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $59.95, cloth; $22.50, paper.)
This book undertakes the enormously important and remarkably difficult task of making sense of the role faith played in people's lives. Specifically, it examines Catholicism among Mexicans and Mexican Americans in twentieth-century Houston. Given the long, significant, and growing importance of Latinos in the West, works like this will become increasingly important in understanding the region and its people.	1
Roberto R. Treviño, associate professor of history and assistant director of the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Arlington, grew up Presbyterian in the Catholic community chronicled here. Theoretically, he draws upon cultural resistance theory and works on African American religious history and the religious history of other groups outside the U. S. mainstream. Treviño calls the Mexican way of being Catholic ethno-Catholicism and argues that it allowed Mexicans in Houston to maintain their identity and dignity in a society that treated them shabbily.	. . .

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