La batalla por el alma de América Latina: Una revisión crítica del papel de la religión en el continente

Abstract

For a long time, the Roman Catholic Church was the reference point when one studied the issue of religion in Latin America, however, this predominance has lessened in the last three decades. The situation today is much more complex with new religious organizations and practices such as evangelical Protestantism, especially Pentecostalism coming to the fore and rapidly gaining followers at the expense of the Catholic Church. The religious economy approach is useful to understand the growing tensions between the differing religious actors as a source of social change in the continent.