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Zusatztext This is a book for all serious students of World Christianity. That Latin America is a highly significant component in the new World Christianity no one doubts; but its inheritance from the old European Christendom sets it apart. Todd Hartch provides a fine sustained historical interpretation of the distinctively Latin American forms of the Catholic and Protestant traditions. This is a book that illuminates and stimulates. Those concerned with Christian history in other parts of the world will find it a boon. Informationen zum Autor Todd Hartch is Assistant Professor of History at Eastern Kentucky University. Klappentext In The Rebirth of Latin American Christianity, Todd Hartch examines the changes that have swept across Latin America in the last fifty years, and situates them in the context of the growth of Christianity in the global South. Zusammenfassung In The Rebirth of Latin American Christianity, Todd Hartch examines the changes that have swept across Latin America in the last fifty years, and situates them in the context of the growth of Christianity in the global South. INTRODUCTION ; CHAPTER 1. THE RISE OF PROTESTANTISM ; CHAPTER 2. LARGE SCALE EVANGELISM AND THE CATHOLIC RESPONSE ; CHAPTER 3. ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT ; CHAPTER 4. PROPHETIC CHRISTIANITY IN BRAZIL AND CHILE ; CHAPTER 5. THE HEARTLAND OF PENTECOSTALISM ; CHAPTER 6. CHARISMATIC CATHOLICISM ; CHAPTER 7. CATHOLIC ACTION AND BASE ECCLESIAL COMMUNITIES ; CHAPTER 8. THE NEW ECCLESIAL MOVEMENTS ; CHAPTER 9. UNIVERSAL CHRISTIANITY ; CHAPTER 10. FROM LATIN AMERICA TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH ; CONCLUSION
