Sea la Luz: The Making of Mexican Protestantism in the American Southwest, 1829-1900

Contents
List of Illustrations	viii
List of Abbreviations	ix
Preface	x
Introduction	1
1	"Planting the Institutions of Freedom"
Protestant Attitudes Toward the Conquest of the Southwest	
2	"Unfit for the Duties and Privileges of Citizens"
Anglo American Protestant Attitudes towards the Mexicans of the Southwest	
3	"Making Good Citizens Out of the Mexicans"
Motivations for Protestant Mission Work Among Mexican Americans 	
4	"Yet Many Do Not Declare Themselves for Fear"
Protestant Mission Efforts Prior to the Civil War 	
5	"Teaching Them to Be Law-abiding, Industrious and Thrifty Citizens"
Mexican American Protestantism in Texas	
6	"A Slumbering People"
Mexican American Protestantism in the Territory of New Mexico	
7	"Doing What He Could"
Mexican American Protestantism in Colorado, the Territory of Arizona, and California	
8	"A Power for the Uplifting of the Mexican Race"
Characteristics of the Nineteenth-Century Mexican American Protestant Community	
Conclusion: Beginnings of a New Subculture	
Appendix	
Notes
Bibliography