TY - BOOK ID - 118187571 TI - Evangelicals and electoral politics in Latin America : a kingdom of this world PY - 2023 SN - 1009275097 1009275089 9781009275095 9781009275088 9781009275071 9781009275118 1009275062 1009275070 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Evangelicalism KW - Religious right KW - Christianity and politics KW - Political aspects KW - Latin America KW - Politics and government KW - Christianity KW - Church and politics KW - Politics and Christianity KW - Politics and the church KW - Political science KW - Conservatism KW - Right and left (Political science) KW - Evangelical religion KW - Protestantism, Evangelical KW - Evangelical Revival KW - Fundamentalism KW - Pietism KW - Protestantism KW - AsociacioĢn Latinoamericana de Libre Comercio countries KW - Neotropical region KW - Neotropics KW - New World tropics KW - Spanish America KW - Religious right. KW - Latin America Politics and government UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:118187571 AB - Why are religious minorities well represented and politically influential in some democracies but not others? Focusing on evangelical Christians in Latin America, this book argues that religious minorities seek and gain electoral representation when they face significant threats to their material interests and worldview, and when their community is not internally divided by cross-cutting cleavages. Differences in Latin American evangelicals' political ambitions emerged as a result of two critical junctures: episodes of secular reform in the early twentieth century and the rise of sexuality politics at the turn of the twenty-first. In Brazil, significant threats at both junctures prompted extensive electoral mobilization; in Chile, minimal threats meant that mobilization lagged. In Peru, where major cleavages divide both evangelicals and broader society, threats prompt less electoral mobilization than otherwise expected. The multi-method argument leverages interviews, content analysis, survey experiments, ecological analysis, and secondary case studies of Colombia, Costa Rica, and Guatemala. ER -