Introduction: Joshua Prokopy and Christian Smith--Latin American Religion in Motion PART I: ROMAN CATHOLICISM 1. Anthony Gill--"The Struggle to be Soul Provider: Catholic Responses to Protestant Growth in Latin America" 2. Liesl Haas--"The Catholic Church in Chile: New Political Alliances" 3. Sarah Brooks--"Catholic Activism in the 1990s: New Strategies for the Neoliberal Age." 4. Kristin Norget--"Progressive Theology and Popular Religiosity in Oaxaca, Mexico." 5. Marjo de Thieje--"CEBs and Catholic Charismatics in Brazil." PART II: PROTESTANTS AND EVANGELISTS 6. David Smilde--"El Clamor por Venezuela: Latin American Evangelism as a Collective Action Frame." 7. Matthew Marostica--"The Defeat of Denominational Culture in the Argentine Evangelical Movement." 8. Timothy Steigenga and David Smilde--"Wrapped in the Holy Shawl: The Strange Case of Conservative Christians and Gender Equality in Latin America." 9. Frans Kamsteeg--"Pentecostalism and Political Awakening in Pinochet's Chile and Beyond." 10. Cecília Mariz and Clara Mafra--"Family and Reproduction among Protestants in Rio de Janeiro." 11. Daniel Miguez--"Religious Motives in the Growth of Latin American Pentecostalism: Exploring the Argentinian Case." PART III: NON-CHRISTIAN AND CREOLE RELIGIONS 12. Robert Carpenter--"Esoteric Literature as a Microcosmic Mirror of Brazil's Religious Marketplace." 13. Hans Siebers--"Globalization and Religious Creolization among the Q'eqchi'es of Guatemala." 14. Tina Gudrun Jensen--"Discourses on Afro-Brazilian Religion: From De-Africanization to Re-Africanization."
Christian Smith (Editor)
Christian Smith is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Sociology, director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Society, and director of the Center for Social Research at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author or coauthor of numerous books, including Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers and Moral, Believing Animals: Human Personhood and Culture.
Joshua Prokopy (Editor)