The Cambridge History of Religions in Latin America

Virginia Garrard-Burnett, Paul Freston, Stephen C. Dove

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9780521767330
• eBook ISBN:
  9781316496602
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Latin American & Caribbean History
• Index: History

The Cambridge History of Religions in Latin America covers religious history in Latin America from pre-Conquest times until the present. This publication is important; first, because of the historical and contemporary centrality of religion in the life of Latin America; second, for the rapid process of religious change which the region is undergoing; and third, for the region's religious distinctiveness in global comparative terms, which contributes to its importance for debates over religion, globalization, and modernity. Reflecting recent currents of scholarship, this volume addresses the breadth of Latin American religion, including religions of the African diaspora, indigenous spiritual expressions, non-Christian traditions, new religious movements, alternative spiritualities, and secularizing tendencies.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Title page
• Copyright information
• Dedication
• Table of contents
• List of tables and figure
• List of contributors
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Introduction to the Cambridge History of Religions in Latin America
• 2 Religion in the Pre-Contact New World
• 3 Religion in the Pre-Contact Old World
• 4 Religion in the Pre-Contact Old World
• 5 Extending Christendom
• 6 New World “Savages,” Anthropophagy, and the European Religious Imagination
• 7 Evangelization and Indigenous Religious Reactions to Conquest and Colonization
• 8 Tridentine Catholicism in the New World
• 9 The Inquisition in the New World
• 10 Saint, Shrines, and Festival Days in Colonial Spanish America
• 11 The Baroque Church
• 12 The Spanish Missions of North and South America
• 13 The Church, Africans, and Slave Religion in Latin America
• 14 Messianic and Revitalization Movements
• 15 The Expulsion of the Jesuits and the Late Colonial Period
• 16 The Church and Latin American Independence
• 17 Liberalism, Anticlericalism, and Antireligious Currents in the Nineteenth Century
• 18 Religious Devotion, Rebellion, and Messianic Movements
• 19 Historical Protestantism in Latin America
• 20 Immigrant Protestantism
• 21 Marianism in Latin America
• 22 Secularism and Secularization
• 23 The Revival of Latin American Catholicism, 1900–1960
• 24 The Intellectual Roots of Liberation Theology
• 25 Progressive Catholicism in Latin America
• 26 The Catholic Church and Dictatorship
• 27 Latin American Pentecostalism as a New Form of Popular Religion
• 28 History, Current Reality, and Prospects of Pentecostalism in Latin America
• 29 The Religious Media and Visual Culture in Latin America
• 30 The Catholic Charismatic Renewal and the Incipient Pentecostalization of Latin American Catholicism
• 31 Contemporary Popular Catholicism in Latin America
• 32 Catholicism and Political Parties in Modern Latin America
• 33 Human Rights
• 34 Religion and Gender in Latin America
• 35 Christian Churches, Reproduction, and Sexuality in Latin America
• 36 Indigenous Peoples
• 37 Inculturation Theology and the “New Evangelization”
• 38 African Diaspora Religions in Latin America Today
• 39 Afro-Caribbean Religious Expressions
• 40 Spiritism in Latin America
• 41 Transnationalism, Globalization, and Latin American Religions
• 42 Religious Identity and Emigration from Latin America
• 43 Neither Catholics nor Protestants
• 44 Jews and Judaism in Latin America
• 45 Islam in Latin America
• 46 Asian Religions in Latin America
• 47 Ecumenism in Latin America
• 48 The Religious Field in Latin America
• 49 Pathways to the Future
• Index