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Latin America, where 90% of the population is Christian and where nearly 40% of the world's Catholics reside, has its own unique brand of Christianity. The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Christianity offers a survey of Latin American Christianity from thirty-three leading scholars. The volume systematically introduces and examines dramatic shifts in Catholic and Protestant Christianity over the course of several centuries. Its four sections explore the emergence of colonial Christianity, its institutional and popular evolution, and its dynamic role the region's contemporary developments.

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Latin America, where 90% of the population is Christian and where nearly 40% of the world's Catholics reside, has its own unique brand of Christianity. The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Christianity offers a survey of Latin American Christianity from thirty-three leading scholars. The volume systematically introduces and examines dramatic shifts in Catholic and Protestant Christianity over the course of several centuries. Its four sections explore the emergence of colonial Christianity, its institutional and popular evolution, and its dynamic role the region's contemporary developments.
Autorenporträt
Susan Fitzpatrick-Behrens is Professor of Latin American History and Chair of the History Department at California State University, Northridge. Her publications include The Maryknoll Catholic Mission in Peru (2012). David Thomas Orique, O.P., is Associate Professor of Colonial and Modern Latin American History, Iberian Atlantic World History, and the Director of Latina/o and Latin American Studies at Providence College. His publications include To Heaven or Hell: An Introduction to the Soteriology of Bartolome de Las Casas (2016). Virginia Garrard is a faculty member at Tulane University. Her most recent book, co-authored with Peter Henderson and Bryan McCann, is History of Modern Latin America in the Modern World (OUP, 2018).