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 a core...

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Subtitles:Latin American Christianity
Contributors: Orique, David Thomas 1959- (Editor) ; Fitzpatrick-Behrens, Susan ca. 20./21. Jh. (Editor) ; Garrard, Virginia 1957- (Editor)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: New York Oxford Oxford University Press [2020]
In:Year: 2020
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Latin America / Christianity / Church history studies
Further subjects:B Collection of essays
B Christianity (Latin America)
B Church History
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Summary: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." 0In The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Christianity an interdisciplinary contingent of scholars examines Latin American Christianity in all of its manifestations from the colonial to the contemporary period. The essays here provide an accessible background to understanding Christianity in Latin America. Spanning 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 conversion to Pentecostalism and Charismatic Catholicism, The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Christianity is the most complete introduction to the history and trajectory of this important area of modern Christianity
ISBN:0199860351