...Virginia Garrard Religious Transformation in Maya Guatemala: Cultural Collapse and Christian Pentecostal Revitalization . Edited by John P. Hawkins . Santa Fe : School for Advanced Research Press ; Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2021 . Photographs. Plates. Maps...

...Everett A. Wilson Spiritual Bonfire in Argentina: Confronting Current Theories with an Ethnographic Account of Pentecostal Growth in a Buenos Aires Suburb . By Míguez Daniel . Latin American Studies Series, no. 81 . Amsterdam : Centro de Estudios y Documentación Latinoamericanos...

...Stephen Offutt Power in Powerlessness: A Study of Pentecostal Life Worlds in Urban Chile . By Lindhardt Martin . Religion in the Americas Series . Leiden, Netherlands : Brill , 2012 . Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. vii, 270 pp. Cloth , $144.00 . Copyright © 2017 by Duke...

...John Burdick Born Again in Brazil: The Pentecostal Boom, and the Pathogens of Poverty . By Chestnut R. Andrew . New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press , 1997 . Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. x, 203 pp. Cloth , $50.00 . Paper , $19.95 . Copyright 1998 by Duke...

...W. E. Hewitt Coping with Poverty: Pentecostals and Christian Base Communities in Brazil . By Mariz Cecilia Loreto . Philadelphia : Temple University Press , 1994 . Notes. Bibliography. Index. ix. 195 pp. Cloth , $39.95 . Paper , $16.95 . Copyright 1995 by Duke University...

...Deborah Kanter Migrating Faith: Pentecostalism in the United States and Mexico in the Twentieth Century . By Ramírez Daniel . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2015 . Photographs. Maps. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xix, 283 pp. Paper , $29.95 . Copyright...

... of Protestantism of Emilio Willems, who is quoted frequently, could have been mentioned, since the traditional concept of the subversive effect of Evangelicals was included. National rebellion against paternalistic, foreign missionaries is presented as distinctive with Pentecostals in Colombia, but this phenomenon...

... University Press 1998 In Struggle for the Spirit , David Lehmann compares and contrasts the progressive Catholicism of Christian base communities (which he calls basismo) with the growing Brazilian Pentecostal movement. His goal is to explain the popularity of the latter and the apparent decline...

... at El Alberto over the past 50 years. This Otomi- (or hñähñu -) speaking community features a distinctive religious landscape: the majority consider themselves Pentecostal (nationally, only 7 percent of Mexicans identify as Pentecostal). Today, about half of what was once the town's total population...

... 1967 This book is difficult to classify. It is part historical, part evangelical, part mystical, and part prophetical. It attempts to give some idea of the rapid growth of Pentecostal churches in Brazil. The term “Pentecostal” has a sort of mystical meaning which is not explained. It apparently...

... out of his subjects. His central concern is why the much-touted “ecclesial base communities” (CEBs) that many of us saw as the source of hope for a renewed and socially progressive Catholicism in Latin America seem to have lost their momentum, and what the explosive expansion of Pentecostalism...

... the most robust growth in contemporary Latin America. Specifically, Chesnut examines the growing popularity of Pentecostalism, the Catholic Charismatic Renewal (CCR), and African diasporic religions. Chesnut maintains that these religions are better attuned to consumer desires and preferences than...

... of particular value to students of religion and macro-social change in contemporary Latin America. First, they are illustrative of the two most dynamic currents in modern-day Latin American Protestantism, namely Pentecostalism ( Latin American Church Growth ) and the Church and Society movement ( Social...

... of publication on Pentecostal religious practice. Goodman’s long involvement in the town she calls “Utzpak” yields a portrayal of rare depth that will be of particular interest to specialists studying the growth of Pentecostalism in Latin America. Organized chronologically into chapters reflecting distinct...

... by engaging in a survey of Nicaraguan Protestantism from the first European contact with the Miskitos in the sixteenth century to evangelization campaigns by Pentecostal groups in the 1970s. Smith also analyzes the relationship between Somoza and Protestants to establish a necessary baseline against which...

... 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 Brazil's far-right president Jair Bolsonaro is known for the catchphrase “Brasil acima de tudo, Deus acima de todos” (Brazil above everything, God above everyone). Although born and baptized a Catholic, Bolsonaro was rebaptized in 2016 by a Pentecostal pastor...

... to be cataloged and discussed. Statements by the Catholic hierarchy, Latin American governments, census data, and the other concrete and verifiable pieces of information, are taken from evangelical publications such as New Covenant, Christian Life, Christianity Today , and Pentecostal Evangel . The selected...

... Christianity. This is an ambitious task, and Garrard states clearly from the outset that this study will not be in any way exhaustive. It privileges the analysis of Protestantism over Catholicism, particularly Pentecostal and neo-Pentecostal churches and movements. This focus leads her to Guatemala (chapter 2...

.... Protestantism in Mexico began with small groups linked to U.S. missionaries and Mexican government officials during the mid-nineteenth century. These congregations made significant contributions to the revolution in 1910, but remained small until the 1950s. Various Pentecostal groups have since made significant...

... their peak in 1924, with a major uprising at Napalpí. The defeat of the Toba was a public demonstration of the incapacity of their shamanistic leaders. It was during this period of greatest imbalance that the pentecostal religion was first introduced into the region. With its emphasis on curing and spirit...