Latin America the United States religion and politics are ingredients in a beverage of
explosive power. The four terms also denote a close entanglement. Historically this
relationship has been shaped primarily by the Protestant mission in Latin America and its
Pan-American objectives. But mission was yesterday. Today under the conflictive conditions of
life in Latin America a new religious style has been molded and with the Latin migration the
religious field in the United States is changing considerably. The present book with reference
to the Weberian distinction between sects and institutionalized religion renders visible the
logic of inter-American entanglements by tracing and interpreting exemplary developments and
conflicts. The narrative is framed between two important religious events in 1916 and 2016.
Table of Contents Preface
........................................................................................ 1 1.
Introduction ......................................................................... 3 2.
Panama 1916 and What Happened Before ......................... 232.1 Panama 1916
....................................................................... 232.2 Puritan
Perfectionism: Law Expansion and Liberty ..... 322.3 Puritan Perfectionism: Emotion Charisma
and Power ...... 46 3. Entanglement of Religious Dispositions ............................
503.1 Conditions of Religious Entanglement ............................... 503.2 Religious
Dispositions:Transformation through Entanglement ............................... 63 4. The
Social Question from Below .................................... 894.1 Brazil: Society and
Church ................................................. 904.2 Cochabamba: Church and Society
...................................... 94 5. Wars: Military and Spiritual
............................................... 1005.1 Spiritual Warfare
................................................................. 1005.2 Guatemala: City upon a
Hill ............................................... 1025.3 USA: Ideological Battlefield
.............................................. 121 6. New Millennium: Prosperity and Migration
...................... 1456.1 Neo-Liberalism and Prosperity
........................................... 1456.2 Everyday Border Crossings
................................................ 1496.3 Promised Land?
.................................................................. 161 7 Panama 2016 and the
Social Context ................................. 1817.1 Misunderstanding
................................................................ 1817.2 Colonization and
Refeudalization ....................................... 1857.3 Panama 2016
....................................................................... 193 Epilogue: Dynamics
of Entanglement ....................................... 207 Works cited
................................................................................ 210 Virtual
Interview ........................................................................ 226
