Overview
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Henri Gooren
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Sociology/Anthropology, Oakland Univ Sociology/Anthropology, Rochester, USA
- A comprehensive reference that covers all major religions, beliefs and practices in Latin America
- Views Latin American religions in dynamic interaction with other religions of Latin American origin and with religions which did not originate in Latin America but have been a lasting feature of its religious landscape
- Takes into account the growing influence and role of the Diaspora in understanding Latin American religious traditions and religious identity
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Table of contents (432 entries)
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- Carlos Steil, Raquel Sonemann
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- Raquel Litterio de Bastos
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- José Aurelio Sandà Morales
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- Roberto Di Stefano, José Zanca
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- Antonio Genivaldo Cordeiro de Oliveira
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- Adriana Hernández Gómez de Molina
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- MatÃas Bargsted, Nicolás M. Somma, Eduardo Valenzuela
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- Paula Montero, Rafael Quintanilha
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- Edgar Rodrigues Barbosa Neto
About this book
This encyclopedia provides an overview of the main religions of Latin America and the Caribbean, both its centralized transnational expressions and its local variants and schisms. These main religions include (but are not limited to) the major expressions of Christianity (Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, Pentecostalism, Mormonism, and Jehovah’s Witnesses), indigenous religions (Native American, Inuit, Quechua, Aymara, GuaranÃ, Maya, etc.), syncretic Christianity (including Afro-Brazilian religions like Umbanda and Candomblé and Afro-Caribbean religions like Vodun and SanterÃa), other world religions (Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, Islam), transnational New Religious Movements (Rastafarianism, Scientology, Unification Church, Hare Krishna, New Age, etc.), and new local religions (Brazil’s Igreja Universal, La Luz del Mundo from Mexico, etc.).
Editors and Affiliations
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Sociology/Anthropology, Oakland Univ Sociology/Anthropology, Rochester, USA
Henri Gooren
About the editor
Henri Gooren is a Dutch cultural anthropologist working especially on conversion and Pentecostalism, Protestantism, Mormonism, and Roman Catholicism in Latin America. His main books are Rich among the Poor (1999) and Religious Disaffiliation and Conversion: Tracing Patterns of Change in Faith Practices(2010). Gooren conducted Templeton-sponsored research on the Pentecostalization of religion and society in Paraguay and Chile in 2010-12. He published 20 chapters in books and 17 articles in journals, such as Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Exchange, Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies, PentecoStudies, and Dialogue. Gooren is affiliated with Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan.