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Latin America, where 90% of the population is Christian and where nearly 40% of the world's Catholics reside, has its own unique brand of Christianity.
The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Christianity offers a survey of Latin American Christianity from thirty-three leading scholars. The volume systematically introduces and examines dramatic shifts in Catholic and Protestant Christianity over the course of several centuries. Its four sections explore the emergence of colonial Christianity, its institutional and popular evolution, and its dynamic role the region's contemporary developments.
List of contents
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- Susan Fitzpatrick-Behrens, Virginia Garrard, and David T. Orique
- Section I: Christianity Comes to the New World
- 1. Making of Colonial Christianity
- John F. Schwaller
- 2. Time and Christianity in Early Latin America
- Matthew O'Hara
- 3. Tridentine Theology and its Contact with the New World
- David M. Lantigua
- 4. The Sacred Art of Counter-Conquest: Material Christianity in Latin America
- Jennifer Scheper Hughes
- 5. Indigenous Christianities: Commensuration, (De)Colonization, and Cultural Production in Latin America
- Andrew Orta
- 6. (Un)Making Christianity: The African Diaspora in Slavery and Freedom
- Rachel Sarah O'Toole
- 7. Millenarian Movements
- Carole A. Myscofski
- 8. The Course of Catholic History in Latin America
- Fernando Cervantes
- Section II: The Church Militant: Catholic Political Activism
- 9. Liberation Theology: History and Trends
- Phillip Berryman
- 10. Catholicism, Revolution, and Counter-Revolution in Twentieth-Century Latin America
- Stephen J. C. Andes
- 11. Bishops, Priests, and CELAM
- Erika Helgen
- 12. Activist Christians, the Human Rights Movement and Democratization in Latin America
- Nick Rowell
- 13. Prophetic Martyrdom in Modern Latin America
- Edward T. Brett
- 14. The Ambivalence of Catholic Politics in Latin America: Ideology, Interests, and Institutions
- Amy Edmonds
- 15. Rights, Religion, and Violence at Mexico's Borders
- Christine Kovic
- Section III: A Transnational Spirit: Missionaries and Charism
- 16. Pentecostalism and Neopentecostalism in Latin America: Two Case Studies
- Virginia Garrard and Justin M. Doran
- 17. Conversion Processes and Social Networks in Latin America
- Henri Gooren
- 18. A New Pentecost: Conversion in the Caribbean
- Luis N. Rivera-Pagán
- 19. Protestant Innovative Evangelizing to Oral Cultures in Guatemala
- Rachel M. McCleary
- 20. Liberation Theology's Spiritual Legacy for the Latin American Church
- Harold Segura
- 21. Preferential Option for the Spirit: The Catholic Charismatic Renewal
- Brenda Carranza
- 22. Alternative Christianities: Mormons, Seventh-day Adventists, and Jehovah's Witnesses
- Ronald Lawson, Kenneth Xydias, Ryan T. Cragun
- 23. Mainline Protestantism in Latin America
- Joel Morales Cruz
- Section IV: Contemporary Christianity in Latin America
- 24. Christianity and Ecology in Latin America
- Lois Ann Lorentzen
- 25. Mary, Mother of Jesus: Consolatrice of the Americas
- Jeanette Rodriguez
- 26. Marshalling the Faithful: Popular Religiosity and Institutional Life in Modernizing Mexico
- Edward Wright-Ríos
- 27. Catholic Laity in the Latin American Church
- Robert S. Pelton, C.S.C.
- Complete Bibliography
- Index
About the author
Susan Fitzpatrick-Behrens is Professor of Latin American History and Chair of the History Department at California State University, Northridge. Her publications include The Maryknoll Catholic Mission in Peru (2012).
David Thomas Orique, O.P., is Associate Professor of Colonial and Modern Latin American History, Iberian Atlantic World History, and the Director of Latina/o and Latin American Studies at Providence College. His publications include To Heaven or Hell: An Introduction to the Soteriology of Bartolome de Las Casas (2016).
Virginia Garrard is a faculty member at Tulane University. Her most recent book, co-authored with Peter Henderson and Bryan McCann, is History of Modern Latin America in the Modern World (OUP, 2018).
