In Latin America, evangelical Protestantism poses an increasing challenge to Catholicism's long-established religious hegemony. At the same time, the region is among the most generally democratic in the global South, despite often being labeled as "underdeveloped." Scholars disagree about whether Latin American Protestantism, as a fast-growing and predominantly lower-class phenomenon, will encourage a political culture that is repressive and authoritarian or if it will have democratizing effects. Drawing from a range of sources, this book contains case studies of five countries: Brazil, Peru, Mexico, Guatemala, and Nicaragua. The contributors, mainly scholars based in Latin America, provide firsthand knowledge. This groundbreaking work explores the relationship between Latin American evangelicalism and politics and its influences, manifestations, and prospects for the future.
Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Latin America is one of four volumes in the series edited by Timothy Samuel Shah entitled Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in the Global South, which seeks to answer the following question: What happens when a revivalist religion based on scriptural orthodoxy participates in the volatile politics of the Third World? At a time when the global-political impact of another revivalist and scriptural religion-Islam-fuels vexed debate among analysts the world over, these volumes offer an unusual comparative perspective on a critical issue: the often combustible interaction of resurgent religion and the developing world's unstable politics.
In Latin America, evangelical Protestantism poses an increasing challenge to Catholicism's long-established religious hegemony. At the same time, the region is among the most generally democratic in the global South, despite often being labeled as "underdeveloped." Scholars disagree about whether Latin American Protestantism, as a fast-growing and predominantly lower-class phenomenon, will encourage a political culture that is repressive and authoritarian or if it will have democratizing effects. Drawing from a range of sources, this book contains case studies of five countries: Brazil, Peru, Mexico, Guatemala, and Nicaragua. The contributors, mainly scholars based in Latin America, provide firsthand knowledge. This groundbreaking work explores the relationship between Latin American evangelicalism and politics and its influences, manifestations, and prospects for the future.
Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Latin America is one of four volumes in the series edited by Timothy Samuel Shah entitled Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in the Global South, which seeks to answer the following question: What happens when a revivalist religion based on scriptural orthodoxy participates in the volatile politics of the Third World? At a time when the global-political impact of another revivalist and scriptural religion-Islam-fuels vexed debate among analysts the world over, these volumes offer an unusual comparative perspective on a critical issue: the often combustible interaction of resurgent religion and the developing world's unstable politics.
Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Latin America
Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Latin America
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| ISBN-13: | 9780190291822 |
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| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Publication date: | 04/11/2008 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 911 KB |