The Church in the Barrio: Mexican American Ethno-Catholicism in Houston.(Book review)

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The Church in the Barrio: Mexican American Ethno-Catholicism in Houston. By Roberto R. Trevino. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xiv + 311 pp. $59.95 cloth; $22.50 paper.

Roberto Trevino has written a meticulously researched, engaging social history of Mexican Americans in Houston. This is an excellent case study, one that provides an intimate portrait of lived religious experiences in a particular urban locale, and that allows the reader an in-depth view into the daily lives of Mexican Americans. Moreover, the author does an admirable job ...

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