Protestant Pentecostalism in Latin America: A Study in the Dynamics of Missions

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1999 - History - 169 pages
This book is a theological-missiological study on the intercultural communication of Faith, drawing heavily from anthropological, sociological, and historical sources. The book is helpful to church workers in Latin America, to colleagues who teach both on college and seminary levels, to scholars who research the phenomenon of Latin American Protestantism, to students to Latin American studies, and in religion and culture in general.
 

Contents

Introduction and Definitions
13
Definitions
15
From the Perspective of Conflict
22
Os Demônios Descem do Norte
26
The Conflict of Ideology and Class
34
The Conflict of Identity
47
Foreign Missionaries and National Latin American Christian Workers
73
The Conflict of the Political Left
76
The Conflict of Community
109
The Communidades Eclesiales de
113
The Conflict of Popular Religiosity
119
A Folk Religious Conflict of Social Class
120
The Conflict with Transcendental Evil
122
The Conflict of Power and Word
124
The Conflict of Institutionalization
128
Morality and a Latin American Way of Life and Faith
129

The Emergence of Liberation Theology
79
Criticizing Liberation Theology
81
Images of Salvation in a Demonized World
93
The Conflict of Violence and Peace
96
THE CONFLICT OF GROWTH AND COMMUNITY
103
Research Methods and General Considerations
132
Bibliography
141
Index
159
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