Conversion of a Continent : : Contemporary Religious Change in Latin America / / ed. by Edward L. Cleary, Timothy Steigenga.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Birman, Patricia,; Carozzi, Marí A Julia,; Chesnut, Andrew,; Cleary, Edward L.,; Corr, Rachel,; Frigerio, Alejandro,; Garrard-Burnett, Virginia,; Gooren, Henri,; Kovic, Christine,; Smilde, David,; Steigenga, Timothy J.,; Wightman, Jill M.,
• HerausgeberIn: Cleary, Edward L.,; Steigenga, Timothy,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2009]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (298 p.)

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• PART ONE. Approaches to Conversion
• 1. Understanding Conversion in the Americas
• 2. Analyzing Conversion in Latin America
• 3. Conversion Careers in Latin America
• 4. Specialized Spirits
• 5. Relational Analysis of Religious Conversion and Social Change
• PART TWO. Conversion to What?
• 6. Conversion from Afro-Brazilian Religions to Neo-Pentecostalism
• 7. Conversion to Afro-Brazilian Religions in Buenos Aires
• 8. The Catholic Charismatic Renewal
• 9. Conversion to Native Spirituality in the Andes
• PART THREE. The Implications of Conversion
• 10. Indigenous Conversion to Catholicism
• 11. Stop Suffering?
• 12. Healing the Nation
• 13. The Politics of Pentecostalized Religion
• CONTRIBUTORS
• INDEX