Tongues of fire : the explosion of Protestantism in Latin America
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Tongues of fire : the explosion of Protestantism in Latin America
B. Blackwell, 1990
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Bibliography: p. [320]-343
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There are now over 40 million Protestants in Latin America, and the spread there of Evangelical Protestantism since the 1960s from its epicentre in the USA has been a religious and social phenomenon of extraordinary proportions. In "Tongues of Fire" David Martin examines the stages of this spread and looks at the reason for it, taking into account how the religious elements have affected and have been affected by the cultural and political conditions they encountered, in particular the clash between the pacific ideals of personal and cultural development promoted by Protestantism and the ideals of military and of male machismo established in Latin America.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Historical genealogies and theoretical background: Anglo and Latin - rival civilizations, alternative patterns
- the Methodist model - Anglo-American cultural production reproduced in Latin America. Part 2 Latin America - history and contemporary situation: profiles of evangelical advance in Latin America
- Brazil - largest society and most dramatic instance
- the Southern cone - Chile and the Argentine contrasted
- smaller contrasting societies - Ecuador, El Salvador, Gautemala and Mexico. Part 3 Comparisons and parallels: Carribean comparisons - Jamaica and Trinidad, Puerto Rico and Haiti
- instructive parallels - South Korea and South Africa. Part 4 Re-formations: new spiritual communications - healings and tongues, songs and stories
- conversions - transformations and turning points
- Protestantism and economic culture - evidence reviewed
- the body politic and the spirit - evidence reviewed. Part 5 Conclusions: the argument summarized and extended.
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