This book explores the transformations in religion in conjunction with political change. Professor Levine suggests, highlights the dynamic and dialectical inter
The author surveys the literature on the reasons for Pentecostal growth and Catholic retrenchment in Latin America and assesses the socioeconomic and political
The authors examine popular religion as a vital source of new values and experiences as well as a source of pressure for change in the church, political life, a
In the 1960s liberation theology addressed itself to the problems of a continent racked by poverty and oppression. Comprising a network of localized communities
Collects nine previously published essays that consider the entire region and so provide a more comparative view of the range of religious experience than studi