Made in the Margins

Latina/o Constructions of US Religious History

Hjamil A. Martínez-Vázquez

• Publisher: Baylor University Press
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9781602581999
• eBook ISBN: 9781602585539
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: Social Sciences

Though the writing of US religious history has become increasingly open to new voices, Hjamil A. Martínez-Vázquez argues that those voices have yet to challenge effectively the dominant Eurocentric historical perspective. In this first Latina/o American religious historiography, Martínez-Vázquez critiques the traditional narrative not for what it says, but for what it does not say. Made in the Margins considers the ways in which traditional historiography has favored a specific understanding of US religious history and offers a new method of constructing Latina/o histories as "subaltern." And, in so doing, Made in the Margins ably begins the necessary conversation about truly doing history from within previously marginalized communities and disciplines.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title, About the Series, Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Why Historiography?
• Part 1. A Look at U.S. Religious Historiography
• 1. The Canon of U.S. Religious History
• 2. New Themes, Old Silences
• Part 2. A Look at Latina/o Religious Historiography
• 3. Catholic Histories
• 4. Protestant Histories
• Part 3. Theories and Methodologies from a Postcolonizing Perspective
• 5. The Postcolonizing Project
• 6. Lived Religion
• 7. Feminist History
• Conclusion: Theorizing and Conocimiento
• Selected Bibliography
• Index