Conversion of a Continent
Contemporary Religious Change in Latin America
1st Edition
Published on 27. November 2009
298 pages
978-0-8135-4402-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Timothy Steigenga | Edward L. Cleary
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Contemporary Religious Change in Latin America
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Content
- Intro
- Acknowledgments
- Part 1: Approaches to Conversion
- Chapter 1: Understanding Conversion in the Americas
- Chapter 2: Analyzing Conversion in Latin America: Theoretical Questions, Methodological Dilemmas, and Comparative Data from Argentina and Brazil
- Chapter 3: Conversion Careers in Latin America: Entering and Leaving Church among Pentecostals, Catholics, and Mormons
- Chapter 4: Specialized Spirits: Conversion and the Products of Pneumacentric Religion in Latin America's Free Market of Faith
- Chapter 5: Relational Analysis of Religious Conversion and Social Change: Networks and Publics in Latin American Evangelicalism
- Part 2: Conversion to What?
- Chapter 6: Conversion from Afro-Brazilian Religions to Neo-Pentecostalism: Opening New Horizons of the Possible
- Chapter 7: Conversion to Afro-Brazilian Religions in Buenos Aires: Convincing Interactions
- Chapter 8: The Catholic Charismatic Renewal: Revitalization Movements and Conversion
- Chapter 9: Conversion to Native Spirituality in the Andes: From Corpus Christi to Inti Raymi
- Part 3: The Implications of Conversion
- Chapter 10: Indigenous Conversion to Catholicism: Change of Heart in Chiapas, Mexico
- Chapter 11: Stop Suffering?: The Iglesia Universal del Reino de Dios in the United States
- Chapter 12: Healing the Nation: Pentecostal Identity and Social Change in Bolivia
- Chapter 13: The Politics of Pentecostalized Religion: Conversion as Pentecostalization in Guatemala
- Contributors
- Index
