TY - JOUR
AB - 578 The Journal of American History September 2015 II, the effects of Nazi social theory on Amer- costalism grow to be the preferred religion of two-thirds of today’s Latino Protestan-ts. Sig ican servicemen, and the economic boom of the 1940s” (p. 13). This is important be- nificantly, ag inu fl ence spread early on from cause Flores makes bold claims about the sigt -he United States to Latin America: Mexico (in 1917), Cuba (in 1923), and El Salvador nificance of “Mexico’s scientific state” in early and Guatemala (in 1926). desegregation campaigns (pp. 214–16). But I Espinosa skillfully teases out the work of was left wondering whether the form, course, many ag leaders from Azusa to the present, or timing of the civil rights movement would including, in early chapters, the “Euro-Amer- have been different had these social scientists ican” Henry C. Ball’s ministry among Mexi- not looked to Mexico, or had postrevolution- cans and Mexican Americans in San Anto- ary Mexico not undertaken their “grand exper- nio’s Templo Cristiano in 1919. This spurred iment in state reform and cultural fusion” (p. the development of the North American La- 2). Answering such a counterfactual question tino ag which fell under 
TI - Latino Pentecostals in America: Faith and Politics in Action
JO - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.1093/jahist/jav340
DA - 2015-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/latino-pentecostals-in-america-faith-and-politics-in-action-BioNLcgdiT
SP - 578
EP - 579
VL - 102
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -