Encyclopedia of Latin American Religions Hardback
Edited by Henri Gooren
Part of the Religions of the World series
Hardback
Description
This encyclopedia provides an overview of the main religions of Latin America and the Caribbean, both its centralized transnational expressions and its local variants and schisms.
These main religions include (but are not limited to) the major expressions of Christianity (Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, Pentecostalism, Mormonism, and Jehovah’s Witnesses), indigenous religions (Native American, Maya religion), syncretic Christianity (including Afro-Brazilian religions like Umbanda and Candomblé and Afro-Caribbean religions like Vodun and Santería), other world religions (Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, Islam), transnational New Religious Movements (Scientology, Unification Church, Hare Krishna, New Age, etc.), and new local religions (Brazil’s Igreja Universal, La Luz del Mundo from Mexico, etc.).
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:1665 pages, 100 Tables, color; 22 Illustrations, color; 2 Illustrations, black and white; XXX, 1665
- Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG
- Publication Date:15/04/2019
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- ISBN:9783319270777
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Item not Available
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:1665 pages, 100 Tables, color; 22 Illustrations, color; 2 Illustrations, black and white; XXX, 1665
- Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG
- Publication Date:15/04/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9783319270777
