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MENDOZA GARCIA, Leticia. Domestic Protestant Churches in the Context of U.S.-Mexico Missionary Relations (1881-1919). Hist. mex. [online]. 2023, vol.72, n.3, pp.1219-1262.  Epub 30-Jan-2023. ISSN 2448-6531.  https://doi.org/10.24201/hm.v72i3.4580.

This article has the objective of analyzing autonomous voices within missionary Protestantism in Mexico through certain native leaders who broke off relations with foreign missionaries in order to form domestic churches that were anti-Protestant and anti-American. Through an analysis of evangelical periodicals, it examines the position of missions regarding these desires to be autonomous, the support plan that originated this separatist initiative and the rise of the first domestic churches. The origin of these Mexican churches reveals the presence of a native Protestantism in open conflict with foreign missionary policies. It also reveals the lack of unity of denominational Protestantism, which was incapable of maintaining joint cooperation policies in order to more successfully spread its doctrines. This disunity and division, which gestated under the Porfiriato, would become cathartic during the revolutionary conflict.

Palavras-chave : Missionary Relations; Domestic Churches; Mexican Protestantism; U.S. Missions; Protestant Autonomy.