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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[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Christianity comes to the new world
- Making of colonial Christianity in hispanic America / John F. Schwaller
- Time and Christianity in early Latin America / Matthew O'Hara
- Scholastic theology, justice, and the conquest of the Americas / David M. Lantigua
- Sacred art of counter-conquest : material Christianity in Latin America / Jennifer Scheper Hughes
- Indigenous Christianities : commensuration, (de)colonization, and cultural production in Latin America / Andrew Orta
- (Un)making Christianity : the African diaspora in slavery and freedom / Rachel Sarah O'Toole
- Millenarian movements / Carole A. Myscofski
- Course of Catholic history in Latin America / Fernando Cervantes
- Part II. Church militant : Catholic political activism
- Liberation theology : history and trends / Phillip Berryman
- Catholicism, revolution, and counter-revolution in twentieth-century Latin America / Stephen J.C. Andes
- Bishops, priests, and CELAM / Erika Helgen
- Activist Christians, the human rights movement, and democratization in Latin America / Nick Rowell
- Prophetic martyrdom in modern Latin America : two definitions of Christian martyrdom / Edward T. Brett
- Ambivalence of Catholic politics in Latin America: ideology, interests, and institutions / Amy Edmonds
- Rights, religion, and violence at Mexico's borders / Christine Kovic
- Part III. Transnational spirit : missionaries and charism
- Pentecostalism and neo-Pentecostalism in Latin America : two case studies / Virginia Garrard, Justin M. Doran
- Conversion processes and social networks in Latin America / Henri Gooren
- New Pentecost : conversion in the Caribbean / Luis N. Rivera-Pagan
- Protestant innovative evangelizing to oral cultures in Guatemala / Rachel M. McCleary
- Liberation theology's spiritual legacy for the Latin American church / Harold Segura
- Preferential option for the Spirit : the Catholic charismatic renewal / Brenda Carranza
- Alternative Christianities : Mormons, Seventh-Day Adventists, and Jehovah's Witnesses / Ronald Lawson, Kenneth Xydias, Ryan T. Cragun
- Mainline Protestantism in Latin America / Joel Morales Cruz
- Part IV. Contemporary Christianity in Latin America
- Christianity and ecology in Latin America / Lois Ann Lorentzen
- Mary, mother of Jesus : Consolatrice of the Americas / Jeanette Rodriguez
- Marshaling the faithful : popular religiosity and institutional life in modernizing Mexico / Edward Wright-Rios
- Catholic laity in the Latin American church / Robert S. Pelton.