Power, politics, and Pentecostals in Latin America /

Power, politics, and Pentecostals in Latin America / [print] Edward L. Cleary (editor, Professor of Latin American Studies, Providence College, USA); Hannah Stewart-Gambino (editor, Associate Professor of Government, Lehigh University, USA) - Boulder, Colorado : Westview Press, (c)1996. - 272 pages : notes, bibliography, index

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Introduction - Pentecostals, prominence and politics, Edward Cleary; Pentecostals, politics and public space in Latin America, Michael Dodson; Pentecostalism and women in Brazil, Cecilia Loreto Mariz and Maria das Dores Campos Machado; private power or public power - Pentecostalism, base communities and gender, Carol Drogus; inter-church relations - exclusion, ecumenism and the poor, Guillermo Cook; Chilean Pentecostalism - coming of age, E. Cleary and Juan Sepulveda; Pentecostals, conversions and politics in Brazil, Rowan Ireland; Guatemalan Pentecostals - something of their own, Everett Wilson; a case study of Pentecostalism's journey from Puerto Rico to Allentown, Pennsylvania, Anna Adams; the tambourines are banging - the politics of Pentecostal growth in El Salvador, Philip J. Williams; Pentecostals and Evangelicals in Venezuela - consolidating past gains, moving in new directions, Bryan Froehle; Latin American Pentecostals - old stereotypes and new challenges, Hannah Stewart-Gambino and E. Wilson.



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Pentecostal churches--Latin America.
Christianity and politics--History--Latin America--20th century.

BR1644.S849.P694 1996