Social History of Cuba's Protestants

James A. Baer is retired professor of history at the Alexandria Campus of Northern Virginia Community College.

• Chapter 1. Pastors and Patriots (1890-1906) Chapter 2. Growth and Consolidation (1907-1917) Chapter 3. Education and Reform (1918-1933) Chapter 4. National Stirrings (1934-1947) Chapter 5. Confronting Revolution (1948-1958) Chapter 6. Through the Valley of Bones (1959-1968) Chapter 7. Out of Darkness (1969-1991) Chapter 8. Renewal and Hope (1992-2008)

The book’s range from the wars for independence through the present is a strength as it allows Baer to analyze the question of Cuban Protestantism vis-à-vis the pressing social and political questions of each era and to consider how Protestants’ commitments have changed Cuba and have changed over time. . . . Baer’s work adds to the body of scholarship on religion and religious practice in Cuba in ways that illuminate how they intersected with social and political change.