Competitive Spirits: Latin America's New Religious Economy

by R. Andrew Chesnut

Book Overview

For over four centuries the Catholic Church enjoyed a religious monopoly in Latin America in which potential rivals were repressed or outlawed. Latin Americans were born Catholic and the only real choice they had was whether to actively practice the faith. Taking advantage of the legal disestablishment of the Catholic Church between the late 1800s and the early 1900s, Pentecostals almost single-handedly built a new pluralist religious economy. By...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195314867
• ISBN13: 9780195314861
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"