Latin American religion in motion /

This book examines some of the more important new analyses and discoveries about religious movements in Latin America.

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Smith, Christian, 1960-, Prokopy, Joshua
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 1999
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Roman Catholicism. The struggle to be soul provider: Catholic responses to Protestant growth in Latin America / Anthony Gill. The Catholic church in Chile: new political alliances / Liesl Haas. Catholic activism in the 1990s: new strategies for the Neoliberal Age / Sarah Brooks. Progressive theology and popular religiosity in Oaxaca, Mexico / Kristin Norget. CEBs and Catholic charismatics in Brazil / Marjo de Theije
  • pt. 2. Protestants and evangelicals. El clamor por Venezuela: Latin American evangelicalism as a collective action frame / David A. Smilde. The defeat of denominational culture in the Argentine evangelical movement / Matthew Marostica. Wrapped in the holy shawl: the strange case of conservative Christians and gender equality in Latin America / Timothy J. Steigenga and David A. Smilde. Pentecostalism and political awakening in Pinochet's Chile and beyond / Frans Kamsteeg. Family and reproduction among Protestants in Rio de Janeiro / Cecília L. Mariz and Clara Mafra. Exploring the Argentinian case: religious motives in the growth of Latin American Pentecostalism / Daniel Míguez
  • pt. 3. Non-Christian and Creole religions. Esoteric literature as a microcosmic mirror of Brazil's religious marketplace / Robert Carpenter. Globalization and religious Creolization among the Q'eqchi'es of Guatemala / Hans Siebers. Discourses on Afro-Brazilian religion: from de-Africanization to re-Africanization / Tina Gudrun Jensen.