La Lanza de San Baltazar, a representation of the first Protestants of Guadalajara in the late nineteenth century, and an argumentative construction of its discourse

Abstract

The Lanza de San Baltazar was the first periodic Protestant in Guadalajara of the 19ht century, starting in 1873. While there are data frotm the beginning of Jalisco Protestantism, not of the newspaper and its relationship with the beggnings of the Protestant missions. From a historiographical methodology, with short patterns for content analysis, this work aims to reveal the historical panorama of the context, as well as the origin of the text, along wiht some of its discursive forms. Being largely combative and warlike in their language, the text serves as a starting point for historical analysis religious movement in an entity with strong Catholic roots.