Encyclopedia of Latin American Religions 2 Teile Gebunden

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 J udaism 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.).