The Oxford handbook of Latin American Christianity /
"By 2025, Latin America's population of observant Christians will be the largest in the world. Nonetheless, studies examining the exponential growth of global Christianity tend to overlook this region, focusing instead on Africa and Asia. Research on Christianity in Latin America provides...
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| 语言: | English |
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New York, NY, United States of America :
Oxford University Press,
[2020]
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| 丛编: | Oxford handbooks.
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| 总结: | "By 2025, Latin America's population of observant Christians will be the largest in the world. Nonetheless, studies examining the exponential growth of global Christianity tend to overlook this region, focusing instead on Africa and Asia. Research on Christianity in Latin America provides a core point of departure for understanding the growth and development of Christianity in the "Global South." This volume includes research from an interdisciplinary contingent of scholars whose studies examine Latin American Christianity in all of its manifestations, from the colonial to the contemporary period. Essays provide an accessible background to understanding Christianity in Latin America. They span the era from indigenous and African-descendant people's conversion to and transformation of Catholicism during the colonial period through the advent of Liberation Theology in the 1960s and to conversion to Pentecostalism and Charismatic Catholicism"-- |
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| 实物描述: | xvi, 609 pages ; 26 cm |
| 参考书目: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [523]-580) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199860357 0199860351 |