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.).
