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Tejano Religion and Ethnicity: San Antonio, 1821-1860. By Timothy M. Matovina. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995. xi + 168 pp. $24.95 cloth.
In this age when writing history and seeking historical truth far too frequently are sacrificed to the ideological purviews of modern revisionists, ranging from liberation theology to feminism to some form of "Americanization," it is a pleasure to read a work that has focused on the Catholic religion and ethnicity in mid-nineteenth-century San Antonio to produce a balanced well-written, and thoroughly researched historical assessment of the topic under study. Such is what Timothy M. Matovina has accomplished in his Tejano Religion and Ethnicity: San Antonio, 1821-1860.
Avoiding the intellectual deficiency usually evidenced in the efforts of the above-mentioned "revisionists," wherein primary sources are regularly ignored, Matovina based his research mainly...