Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-264) and index.
Contents
Witnesses and evangelists: the rise of Protestantism -- Witnesses and evangelists: large-scale evangelism and the Catholic response -- Prophetic Christianity: origins and development -- Prophetic Christianity in Brazil and Chile -- The heartland of Pentecostalism -- The heartland of charismatic Catholicism -- Rise of the laity: Catholic action and base ecclesial communities -- Rise of the laity: the new ecclesial movements -- Universal Christianity: the internal dimension -- Universal Christianity: from Latin America to the ends of the earth.
Summary
"In The Rebirth of Latin American Christianity, Todd Hartch examines the changes that have swept across Latin America in the last fifty years, and situates them in the context of the growth of Christianity in the global South."--Back cover