This book surveys Latino Protestantism in the US from the early 19th century to the present, considering churches, denominations, and organizations, with some mention of Latino presence in non-Latino Protestant churches. It describes Latino Protestants today and the diversity of the Latino community, including national backgrounds, cultural adaptation and structural assimilation, linguistic issues, and ethnic identity maintenance, as well as connections of Latino Protestantism to Latin American Protestantism and the growing influence of Latino Protestantism in the US and elsewhere, then the broader historical context and historiography. Subsequent chapters cover various periods: Protestant ministry efforts among Latinos in the 19th-century Southwest from 1848 to 1900; how most Protestant denominations started Latino ministries throughout the US during the first part of the 20th century, the beginning of the first Latino-based denominations, and how racism, deportations, and tensions between Latino and Anglo Protestants played a role in their development; the impact of the increase in immigration from the beginning of World War II on churches and ministry outreach; how changing laws, a changing world order, and US interventions in Central America created new migratory patterns, diversities in the Latino community, and new ministry challenges from the 1960s to the 1980s; the period from 1986 to 2000 in which Latino Protestants were discovered in the US and the community continued to grow and expand, as well as the major denominations, movements, and organizations of the period; how Protestantism has developed a unique identity in Latin America and among US Protestant Latinos in the present; and challenges like cultural adaptation and assimilation, relationships with Latin American Protestants, their place in US Protestantism, and what Latino Protestants might look like in the future. Protestant mission work and development in Puerto Rico is not discussed. Annotation 2018 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
