Comparing Pentecostal and Charismatic Christians’ Religious and Political Beliefs Across Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa
This article compares the political correlates of Renewalist Christianity in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa (N = 44,832). Renewalists include Pentecostals and Charismatic members of Mainline Protestant and Catholic churches. Though rarely studied comparatively, Latin America and Sub-Saharan Af...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2023
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Journal for the scientific study of religion
Year: 2023, Volume: 62, Issue: 2, Pages: 260-277 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Latin America
/ Africa
/ Charismatic movement
/ Pentecostal churches
/ Catholic charismatic movement
/ Political attitude
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| IxTheo Classification: | CG Christianity and Politics CH Christianity and Society KBN Sub-Saharan Africa KBR Latin America KDB Roman Catholic Church KDD Protestant Church KDG Free church |
| Further subjects: | B
Political attitudes
B Catholic B Charismatic B Religious Beliefs B Pentecostal B Renewalist Christianity B Sub-Saharan Africa B Latin America |
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| Summary: | This article compares the political correlates of Renewalist Christianity in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa (N = 44,832). Renewalists include Pentecostals and Charismatic members of Mainline Protestant and Catholic churches. Though rarely studied comparatively, Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa boast the largest Renewalist populations worldwide. Scholars have noted that the religious and political beliefs of Renewalists differ from other Christians, but existing studies either treat Renewalists as a single category or focus on Pentecostals while pooling Charismatic and non-Charismatic Catholics and Protestants as denominational blocks. Using multilevel mixed-effects models, this article first confirms that Renewalists’ religious and political beliefs differ from those of non-Renewalist Christians. Importantly, this cautions against the ubiquitous aggregation of Charismatic and non-Charismatic Catholics (and Protestants) in statistical analyses. Additionally, we theorize and evaluate differences between Renewalists and the role of regional context. Religious differences between Pentecostals and Charismatics, we show, are much larger in Latin America than in Sub-Saharan Africa. |
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| ISSN: | 1468-5906 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the scientific study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/jssr.12830 |