Conversion of a Continent

by Steigenga, Timothy J.; Cleary, Edward L.

• ISBN13: 9780813542010
• ISBN10: 0813542014
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-01-30
• Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr

Summary

The book brings together twelve original essays that document and explore competing explanations for how and why conversion has occurred.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Approaches to Conversion
Understanding Conversion in the Americas	p. 3
Analyzing Conversion in Latin America: Theoretical Questions, Methodological Dilemmas, and Comparative Data from Argentina and Brazil	p. 33
Conversion Careers in Latin America: Entering and Leaving Church among Pentecostals, Catholics, and Mormons	p. 52
Specialized Spirits: Conversion and the Products of Pneumacentric Religion in Latin America's Free Market of Faith	p. 72
Relational Analysis of Religious Conversion and Social Change: Networks and Publics in Latin American Evangelicalism	p. 93
Conversion to What?
Conversion from Afro-Brazilian Religions to Neo-Pentecostalism: Opening New Horizons of the Possible	p. 115
Conversion to Afro-Brazilian Religions in Buenos Aires: Convincing Interactions	p. 133
The Catholic Charismatic Renewal: Revitalization Movements and Conversion	p. 153
Conversion to Native Spirituality in the Andes: From Corpus Christi to Inti Raymi	p. 174
The Implications of Conversion
Indigenous Conversion to Catholicism: Change of Heart in Chiapas, Mexico	p. 199
Stop Suffering? The Iglesia Universal del Reino de Dios in the United States	p. 218
Healing the Nation: Pentecostal Identity and Social Change in Bolivia	p. 239
The Politics of Pentecostalized Religion: Conversion as Pentecostalization in Guatemala	p. 256
Contributors	p. 281
Index	p. 285
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