Latin American Religion in Motion

Latin American Religion in Motion
Author: Christian Smith
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2004-11-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1135962936

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Latin America is undergoing a period of intense religious transformation and upheaval. This book analyzes some of the more important new discoveries about religious movements in the region. It examines important shifts such as the expansion and politicization of Protestantism, the ongoing transformation of the Catholic church, the growth of Afro-Brazilian religions, and the genuine pluralization of faith.

Latin American Religion in Motion

Latin American Religion in Motion
Author: Christian Smith
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2004-11-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1135962944

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Latin America is undergoing a period of intense religious transformation and upheaval. This book analyzes some of the more important new discoveries about religious movements in the region. It examines important shifts such as the expansion and politicization of Protestantism, the ongoing transformation of the Catholic church, the growth of Afro-Brazilian religions, and the genuine pluralization of faith.

New Age in Latin America

New Age in Latin America
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2016-06-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004316485

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This book is at the crossroads where a New Age sensibility, advancing like an ecumen of worldwide spirituality without national, cultural, or ecclesiastical frontiers, meets Latin America's syncretic religions, practiced by groups of people wiht African or indigenous roots or developed from the tradition of popular Catholicism. The Syncretic character of the two sensibilities makes both the New Age and popular religion behave like two, syncretizing and syncreticizable matrices of meaning. This book opens up a rich vein of debate with new dilemmas and discussions, that will provide a framework for a new field of study in anthropology. What new ways of signifying living and experiencing religion is the New Age generating in Latin America? What are its limits? Contributors are: Alejandra Aguilar Ros, Santiago Bastos, Lizette Campechano, Sylvie Pédron Colombani, Alejandro Frigerio, Jacques Galinier, Silas Guerriero, Cristina Gutiérrez Zúñiga,Nahayeilli B. Juárez Huet, José Guilherme C.Magnani, Antoinette Molinié, María Teresa Rodríguez, Deis Siqueira, Carlos Alberto Steil, Engel Tally, Renée de la Torre, and Marcelo Zamora.

Religion in Latin America

Religion in Latin America
Author: Lee M. Penyak
Publisher: Orbis Books
Total Pages: 814
Release: 2015-02-19
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1608334368

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Religion and Democracy in Latin America

Religion and Democracy in Latin America
Author: William H. Swatos
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Total Pages: 184
Release:
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781412832922

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Drawn from the pages of Sociological Analysis/Sociology of Religion, this collection of original essays demonstrates the complexity of the religious structure of Latin America, discussing interactions among Protestant and Roman Catholic religious movements, and democratic as well as antidemocratic political agendas.

Religion and Society in Latin America

Religion and Society in Latin America
Author: Lee M Penyak
Publisher: Orbis Books
Total Pages: 591
Release: 2015-02-19
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1608334376

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Fourteen essays examine the impact of religion on the cultures and peoples of Latin America, from the beginning of the Spanish conquest to the twenty-first century, covering Catholicism, Protestantism, indigenous religious traditions, African-based religions, and Pentecostalism.

Conversion of a Continent

Conversion of a Continent
Author: Timothy Steigenga
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2009-11-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0813544025

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A massive religious transformation has unfolded over the past forty years in Latin America and the Caribbean. In a region where the Catholic Church could once claim a near monopoly of adherents, religious pluralism has fundamentally altered the social and religious landscape. Conversion of a Continent brings together twelve original essays that document and explore competing explanations for how and why conversion has occurred. Contributors draw on various insights from social movement theory to religious studies to help outline its impact on national attitudes and activities, gender relations, identity politics, and reverse waves of missions from Latin America aimed at the American immigrant community. Unlike other studies on religious conversion, this volume pays close attention to who converts, under what circumstances, the meaning of conversion to the individual, and how the change affects converts’ beliefs and actions. The thematic focus makes this volume important to students and scholars in both religious studies and Latin American studies.

On Earth as it is in Heaven

On Earth as it is in Heaven
Author: Virginia Garrard-Burnett
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2000
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780842025850

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Collects nine previously published essays that consider the entire region and so provide a more comparative view of the range of religious experience than studies that focus on a particular country. They also range widely across religion, covering not only the dominant Catholicism, but also popular Indian and African religious forms and new elements such as Protestantism and Mormonism. The collection is suitable for a course. It is not indexed. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Crisis and Hope in Latin America

Crisis and Hope in Latin America
Author: Emilio Antonio Núñez C.
Publisher: William Carey Library
Total Pages: 550
Release: 1996
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780878087662

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A thorough overview of Latin America's history, culture, social reality, & spiritual dynamics from an evangelical point of view. The challenges of post-conciliar Roman Catholicism, liberation theology, the charismatic movement contextualization, & social responsibility are explored. Taylor examines the implications of this information for missions in Latin America.

The Rebirth of Latin American Christianity

The Rebirth of Latin American Christianity
Author: Todd Hartch
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2014-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199843139

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Predominantly Catholic for centuries, Latin America is still largely Catholic today, but the religious continuity in the region masks great changes that have taken place in the past five decades. In fact, it would be fair to say that Latin American Christianity has been transformed definitively in the years since the Second Vatican Council. Religious change has not been obvious because its transformation has not been the sudden and massive growth of a new religion, as in Africa and Asia. It has been rather a simultaneous revitalization and fragmentation that threatened, awakened, and ultimately brought to a greater maturity a dormant and parochial Christianity. New challenges from modernity, especially in the form of Protestantism and Marxism, ultimately brought forth new life. In The Rebirth of Latin American Christianity, Todd Hartch examines the changes that have swept across Latin America in the last fifty years, and situates them in the context of the growth of Christianity in the global South.