BOOK COVER -- HALF-TITLE -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- RELIGIOUS ECONOMIES -- SUBCULTURAL IDENTITY THEORY -- PLURALIZATION AND THE CATHOLIC RESPONSE -- NON-CHRISTIAN PLURALIZATION -- TRANSFORMATION WITHIN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH -- REFERENCES -- ONE THE STRUGGLE TO BE SOUL PROVIDER -- PROTESTANTISM: A THREAT TO CATHOLICISM? -- CATHOLIC RESPONSES TO PROTESTANTISM -- CATHOLIC RESPONSE I: SEEKING PROTECTION AND SUBSIDIZATION -- CATHOLIC RESPONSE II: INSTITUTIONAL REFORM AND THE "NEW EVANGELIZATION" -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- TWO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN CHILE -- THE COMPLEXITY OF THE CHURCH'S ROLE IN POLITICS -- MANOEUVRES IN THE MOMENT OF TRANSITION -- THE CHURCH AND DEMOCRATIC POLITICS: -- THE CHURCH CONFRONTS SEX EDUCATION -- THE CHURCH CONFRONTS DIVORCE -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- THREE CATHOLIC ACTIVISM IN THE 1990S -- FINDING THE PROGRESSIVE CHURCH IN THE 1990s: THREE CASES -- GRASSROOTS CATHOLIC ACTIVISM IN THE 1990s -- TRANSFORMATIONS IN CATHOLIC ACTIVISM: IMPULSES FROM WITHIN -- WHITHER THE ACTIVIST CHURCH? -- SOCIAL MOVEMENT THEORY AND THE PROGRESSIVE CHURCH OF THE 1990s -- THE NEOLIBERAL TRANSFORMATION -- "FUJISHOCK" AND NEOLIBERAL PERU -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- FOUR PROGRESSIVE THEOLOGY AND POPULAR RELIGIOSITY IN OAXACA, MEXICO -- POPULAR CULTURE AND RELIGION IN OAXACA -- THE SACRED AND MORAL LANDSCAPE -- THE NEW EVANGELIZATION -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- FIVE CEBS AND CATHOLIC CHARISMATICS IN BRAZIL -- LAY GROUPS: CATHOLIC CAMPAIGNS IN PRACTICE -- LOCAL ELABORATION: THE CONSTRUCTION OF EVERYDAY RELIGION -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- SIX EL CLAMOR POR VENEZUELA -- "LA CRISIS" IN VENEZUELA AND THE GROWTH OF CIVIL SOCIETY -- EL CLAMOR POR VENEZUELA -- LOCATING THE EVANGELICAL FRAME -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES.

SEVEN THE DEFEAT OF DENOMINATIONAL CULTURE IN THE ARGENTINE EVANGELICAL MOVEMENT -- THE GENESIS OF DENOMINATIONALISM IN ARGENTINA -- CARLOS ANNACONDIA -- ANNACONDIA AND UNITY -- AN INNOVATIVE IDEOLOGICAL FRAME -- CHANGE IN THE CHURCHES -- EVANGELICAL IDENTITIES: OLD AND NEW -- AFTER ANNACONDIA -- TACTICAL INNOVATION -- EXPANDING THE MOVEMENT'S APPEAL -- CLAUDIO FREIDZON'S CRUSADE OF MIRACLES -- FREIDZON AND THE EVANGELICAL'S CYCLE OF COLLECTIVE ACTION -- FREIDZON'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE EVANGELICAL MOVEMENT -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- EIGHT WRAPPED IN THE HOLY SHAWL -- THE LATIN AMERICAN RELIGIOUS LANDSCAPE -- QUESTION 1: ARE THERE SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES IN ATTITUDES TOWARD GENDER EQUALITY BETWEEN RELIGIOUS GROUPS? -- QUESTION 2: WHAT SORT OF RELIGIOUS FACTORS MIGHT EXPLAIN ATTITUDES TOWARD GENDER EQUALITY? -- QUESTION 3: WHY WOULD THEOLOGICAL CONSERVATIVES SUPPORT GENDER EQUALITY? -- CONCLUSION -- VARIABLES, RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION, AND RELIGIOUS BELIEFS APPENDIX PREDICTORS OF ATTITUDES TOWARD GENDER EQUALITY REGRESSED BY BACKGROUND -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- NINE PENTECOSTALISM AND POLITICAL AWAKENING IN PINOCHET'S CHILE AND BEYOND -- RELIGION IN THE RECENT HISTORY OF CHILE -- THE RISE OF PENTECOSTALISM IN CHILE -- PENTECOSTALISM VERSUS PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY: CONFLICTING TENDENCIES -- CHALLENGING CLASSIC PENTECOSTALISM: THE CONFRATERNIDAD CRISTIANA DE IGLESIAS -- THE CONSEJO DE PASTORES AND PINOCHET: TRADITION AND POWER -- CONCLUSIONS: THE POST-PINOCHET PERIOD AND ITS PERSPECTIVES -- REFERENCES -- TEN FAMILY AND REPRODUCTION AMONG PROTESTANTS IN RIO DE JANEIRO -- WHO ARE THE PROTESTANTS IN Rio DE JANEIRO? -- FAMILY, REPRODUCTION, AND RELIGION IN BRAZIL -- THE AVERAGE NUMBER OF CHILDREN -- CONTRACEPTIVE METHODS: PROHIBITION AND USE -- THE INFLUENCE OF RELIGIOUS VERSUS SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS -- VALUES ABOUT GENDER RELATIONS -- CONCLUSION.

NOTES -- REFERENCES -- ELEVEN EXPLORING THE ARGENTINIAN CASE -- WHY PEOPLE CONVERT -- THE CASES IN ATHEORETICAL CONTEXT: ANALYZING RELIGIOUS IDENTITY BUILDING -- CONCLUSION: CONFRONTING THE CASES WITH DOMINANT EXPLANATIONS OF PENTECOSTAL GROWTH IN LATIN AMERICA -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- TWELVE ESOTERIC LITERATURE AS A MICROCOSMIC MIRROR OF BRAZIL'S RELIGIOUS MARKETPLACE -- BRAZILIAN ESOTERIC LITERATURE IN THE CONTEXT OF EMERGING ALTERNATIVE SPIRITUALITIES IN LATIN AMERICA -- OVERVIEW AND SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS STUDY -- ESOTERISM WITH A LATIN BEAT: AN OVERVIEW OF BRAZIL'S ESOTERIC BOOM OF THE 1980S AND 1990S -- WHAT IS ESOTERICISM… -- …AND WHAT BUSINESS DOES IT HAVE THRIVING IN LATIN AMERICA'S RELIGIOUS MARKETPLACES? -- SHIFTING CONTOURS OF THE BRAZILIAN RELIGIOUS MARKETPLACE -- ADMIXTURE AS A TRADEMARK OF THE BRAZILIAN RELIGIOUS MARKETPLACE -- THE WEAKENING OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH'S HISTORICAL HEGEMONY IN BRAZIL -- THE IMPACT OF THE PUBLISHED WORD IN THE POSTCONCILIAR BRAZILIAN RELIGIOUS MARKETPLACE -- REFLECTIONS ON AND IN BRAZILIAN ESOTERIC LITERATURE -- BESTSELLING BRAZILIAN ESOTERIC AUTHORS PAULO COELHO'S MODERN ALCHEMY: PAPER(BACKS) INTO GOLD -- MONICA BUONFIGLIO AND LATE-NIGHT CHANNELING -- ESOTERICISM'S IMPACT ON NONESOTERIC AUTHORS -- THE GREENING OF LIBERATION THEOLOGY? -- THEOSOPHICAL RESONANCE WITHIN THE PROTESTANT SPHERE -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- THIRTEEN GLOBALIZATION AND RELIGIOUS CREOLIZATION AMONG THE Q'EQCHI'ES OF GUATEMALA -- THE Q'EQCHI'ES: THEIR LIFE-WORLD IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT1 -- THE PRESENCE OF CHURCHES IN THE LIFE-WORLD OF THE Q'EQCHI'ES -- SACRAMENTALIST PASTORAL WORK -- LIBERATING PASTORAL WORK -- EVANGELICAL CHURCHES -- THE TRANSFORMATION OF RELIGIOUS INFLUENCES BY CHURCHES IN THE REGION -- THE Q'EQCHI'ES' RELIGIOUS CREOLIZATION -- CUSTOMARY RELIGION -- BIBLE-ORIENTED RELIGION -- MIXING, MINGLING, AND ARTICULATING.

CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- FOURTEEN DISCOURSES ON AFRO-BRAZILIAN RELIGION -- THE AFRO-BRAZILIAN RELIGIONS -- THE WHITE SPIRITISM -- MACUMBA -- A RELIGIOUS INNOVATION -- THE FOUNDING OF UMBANDA -- UMBANDA'S DE-AFRICANIZATION OF AFRO-BRAZILIAN RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS -- DE-AFRICANIZATION IN UMBANDA COSMOLOGY -- INCIPIENT RE-AFRICANIZATION -- THE SPREAD AND AFRICANIZATION OF CANDOMBLÉ IN SOUTHEAST BRAZIL -- THE MEANINGS OF RE-AFRICANIZATION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.

Latin America is undergoing a period of intense religious transformation and upheaval. This book analyzes some of the more important new discoveries about religious movements in the region. It examines important shifts such as the expansion and politicization of Protestantism, the ongoing transformation of the Catholic church, the growth of Afro-Brazilian religions, and the genuine pluralization of faith.

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