Latino Protestants in America

Mark T. Mulder is professor of sociology at Calvin College and co-director of the Latino Protestant Congregations Project. He is author of Shades of White Flight: Evangelical Congregations and Urban Departure and numerous articles. His writing has won awards from the Evangelical Press Association and the Associated Church Press.Aida I. Ramos is assistant professor of sociology at George Fox University and research fellow with the Latino Protestant Congregations Project. She has published articles in a range of journals, including the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.Gerardo Martí is L. Richardson King Professor of Sociology at Davidson College and co-director of the Latino Protestant Congregations Project. He is the author of several articles and books, including Worship Across the Racial Divide: Religious Music and the Multiracial Congregation. He is currently editor in chief of the journal Sociology of Religion.

This book combines both current scholarship, some of it historical, with original, ethnographic research carried out among different Protestant Latino congregations across the country. I applaud the authors, whose findings are significant not only for Protestant congregations but also for our own US Catholic Church.

• Preface1 Latino Protestants Are More Than “Not Catholic”2 The Early History of Indigenous and Immigrant Latino Protestants3 The Latino Reformation Today4 Ethnic Identity and Varieties of Latino Protestant Churches5 The Centrality of “Doing Church” among Latino Protestants6 Latino Protestants and Their Political and Social Engagement7 Latino Protestants and the Future of American ChristianityAppendix: Qualitative Sources and Research Methodology