The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Christianity
Synopsis
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."In 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.
Book details
- Series:
- Oxford Handbooks
- Author:
- Virginia Garrard, David Thomas Orique, Susan Fitzpatrick-Behrens
- ISBN:
- 9780190058852
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780199860364, 9780199860357
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Pages:
- N/A
- Reading age:
- Not specified
- Includes images:
- Yes
- Date of addition:
- 2022-12-18
- Usage restrictions:
- Copyright
- Copyright date:
- 2020
- Copyright by:
- Oxford University Press
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Categories:
- Education, History, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Medicine, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Politics and Government, Religion and Spirituality, Social Studies, Sociology