Popular Religiosity: A Protestant Perspective
This paper explores the theme of popular religiosity within the context of Andean Latin America from an evangelical perspective. After defining the concept of popular religiosity, the article explores its historical context; it also discusses some of the current interpretations of Andean popular rel...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Sage
1992
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Missiology
Year: 1992, Volume: 20, Issue: 2, Pages: 205-220 |
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Summary: | This paper explores the theme of popular religiosity within the context of Andean Latin America from an evangelical perspective. After defining the concept of popular religiosity, the article explores its historical context; it also discusses some of the current interpretations of Andean popular religiosity, including a Protestant perspective. After discussing the positive and negative aspects of the phenomenon, the article delineates some of the challenges of popular religiosity for evangelicals in the light of 500 years of Spanish presence in the New World. |
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ISSN: | 2051-3623 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Missiology
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/009182969202000206 |