Conversion of a continent: contemporary religious change in Latin America
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 Contine...
| Summary: | 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 Understanding conversion in the Americas / Timothy J. Steigenga, Edward L. Cleary -- Analyzing conversion in Latin America: theoretical questions, methodological dilemmas, and comparative data from Argentina and Brazil / Alejandro Frigerio -- Conversion careers in Latin America: entering and leaving church among Pentecostals, Catholics, and Mormons / Henri Gooren -- Specialized spirits: conversion and the products of pneumacentric religion in Latin America's free market of faith / Andrew Chesnut -- Relational analysis of religious conversion and social change: networks and publics in Latin American evangelicalism / David Smilde -- Conversion from Afro-Brazilian religions to neo-Pentecostalism: opening new horizons of the possible / Patricia Birman -- Conversion to Afro-Brazilian religions in Buenos Aires: convincing interactions / Maria Julia Carozzi -- The Catholic charismatic renewal: revitalization movements and conversion / Edward L. Cleary -- Conversion to native spirituality in the Andes: from Corpus Christi to Inti Raymi / Rachel Corr -- Indigenous conversion to Catholicism: change of heart in Chiapas, Mexico / Christine Kovic -- Stop suffering? the Iglesia universal del reino de Dios in the United States / Virginia Garrard-Burnett -- Healing the nation: Pentecostal identity and social change in Bolivia / Jill M. Wightman -- The politics of Pentecostalized religion: conversion as Pentecostalization in Guatemala / Timothy J. Steigenga. |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record |
| ISBN: | 0813544025 |