The Cambridge History of Religions in Latin America

Table of Contents

1. Introduction Virginia Garrard-Burnett, Paul Freston and Stephen Dove
2. Religion in the pre-contact New World: Mesoamerica and the Andes David Tavárez
3. Religion in the pre-contact Old World: Europe Carlos M. N. Eire
4. Religion in the pre-contact Old World: Africa Asonzeh Ukah
5. Extending Christendom: religious understanding of the other Miguel León-Portilla
6. New World 'savages', anthropophagy, and the European religious imagination Amos Megged
7. Evangelization and indigenous religious reactions to conquest and colonization Manuel Aguilar-Moreno
8. Tridentine Catholicism in the New World Brian Larkin
9. The Inquisition in the New World Bruno Feitler
10. Saint, shrines, and festivals days in colonial Spanish America Frances L. Ramos
11. The Baroque church Pamela Voekel
12. The Spanish missions of North and South America Ramón A. Gutiérrez
13. The Church, Africans, and slave religion in Latin America Joan Bristol
14. Messianic and revitalization movements Miguel C. Leatham
15. The expulsion of the Jesuits and the late colonial period John Lynch
16. The Church and Latin American independence Jeffrey Klaiber
17. Liberalism, anticlericalism, and antireligious currents in the nineteenth century Matthew Butler
18. Religious devotion, rebellion, and messianic movements: popular Catholicism in the nineteenth century Douglass Sullivan-Gonzalez
19. Historical Protestantism in Latin America Stephen Dove
20. The Lutheran Church in Latin America: an overview Martin N. Dreher
21. Marianism in Latin America Timothy Matovina
22. Secularism and secularization Roberto Blancarte
23. The revival of Latin American Catholicism, 1900–60 Bonar Ludwig Hernández Sandoval
24. The intellectual roots of liberation theology Ivan Petrella
25. Progressive Catholicism in Latin America: sources and its evolution from Vatican II to Pope Francis Manuel A. Vásquez and Anna L. Peterson
26. The Catholic Church and dictatorship Susan Fitzpatrick-Behrens
27. Latin American Pentecostalism as a new form of popular religion André Corten
28. History, current reality, and prospects of Pentecostalism in Latin America Paul Freston
29. The Catholic charismatic renewal and the incipient pentecostalization of Latin American Catholicism Jakob Egeris Thorsen
30. The religious media and visual culture in Latin America Karina Kosicki Bellotti
31. Contemporary popular Catholicism in Latin America Jennifer Scheper Hughes
32. Catholicism and political parties in modern Latin America Michael Fleet
33. Human rights: an ongoing concern Christine Kovic
34. Religion and gender in Latin America Kevin Lewis O'Neill
35. Christian churches, reproduction and sexuality in Latin America Maria das Dores Campos Machado
36. Indigenous peoples: religious change and political awakening Timothy J. Steigenga and Sandra Lazo de la Vega
37. Inculturation theology and the 'new evangelization' Andrew Orta
38. African diaspora religions in Latin America today Stephen Selka
39. Afro-Caribbean religions Miguel A. De La Torre
40. Spiritism in Latin America Sidney M. Greenfield
41. Transnationalism, globalization, and Latin American religions Todd Hartch
42. Religious identity and emigration from Latin America Thomas A. Tweed
43. Neither Catholics nor Protestants: Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Adventists, and La Luz del Mundo Patricia Fortuny de Loret and Henri Gooren
44. Jews and Judaism in Latin America Jeffrey Lesser
45. Islam in Latin America Cecília L. Mariz
46. Asian Religions in Latin America Jeffrey Lesser
47. Ecumenism in Latin America: between the marketplace and the desert Edin Abumanssur
48. The religious field in Latin America: autonomy and fragmentation David Lehmann
49. Pathways to the future Daniel H. Levine.

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