RT Book
T1 Encyclopedia of Latin American Religions
T2 Religions of the World
T2 Springer Nature eReference Religion and Philosophy
A2 Gooren, Henri
LA English
PP Cham
PB Springer
YR 2019
ED 1st ed. 2019
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1671011244
AB 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.)
CN BL1-2790
SN 9783319270784
K1 Religious Studies, general
K1 Cultural Studies
K1 Religion
K1 Culture-Study and teaching
K1 Culture
K1 Ethnology
DO 10.1007/978-3-319-27078-4