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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.).

Religion. --- Culture-Study and teaching. --- Religious Studies, general. --- Regional and Cultural Studies. --- Cultural Studies. --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- God --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Popular culture --- Culture --- Study and teaching. --- Cultural studies --- Culture—Study and teaching. --- Cultural studies. --- Ethnology. --- Culture. --- Regional Cultural Studies. --- Cultural sociology --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Social aspects

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A massive religious transformation has unfolded over the past forty years in Latin America and the Caribbean. In a region where the Catholic Church could once claim a near monopoly of adherents, religious pluralism has fundamentally altered the social and religious landscape. Conversion of a Continent brings together twelve original essays that document and explore competing explanations for how and why conversion has occurred. Contributors draw on various insights from social movement theory to religious studies to help outline its impact on national attitudes and activities, gender relations, identity politics, and reverse waves of missions from Latin America aimed at the American immigrant community. Unlike other studies on religious conversion, this volume pays close attention to who converts, under what circumstances, the meaning of conversion to the individual, and how the change affects converts' beliefs and actions. The thematic focus makes this volume important to students and scholars in both religious studies and Latin American studies.

Conversion --- #SBIB:316.331H382 --- #SBIB:39A10 --- #SBIB:39A74 --- Religious conversion --- Psychology, Religious --- Proselytizing --- Geografische spreiding van de godsdiensten: Amerika --- Antropologie: religie, riten, magie, hekserij --- Etnografie: Amerika --- Latin America --- Religion. --- Conversion.