New Perspectives on Latina/O Religion #2: Made in the Margins: Latina/O Constructions of Us Religious History

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.

Deconstructing the canon of American religious history

Hjamil A. Martínez-Vázquez is an independent scholar serving as Online Instructor for institutions such as Azusa Pacific Online University and the University of Phoenix.

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