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Caribbean & Central America - July 2018 (ISSN 1741-4458)
REGION: Is Central America turning Pentecostal?
Three decades ago anthropologist David Stoll shone the spotlight on the meteoric growth of evangelical Protestantism in Latin America with his provocatively titled book, Is Latin America Turning Protestant? Almost 30 years later, Latin America as a region has not turned Protestant in terms of most countries being majority Evangelico (the standard term for Protestant both in Spanish and Portuguese). However, in the ensuing three decades, Pentecostalism (the branch of charismatic Protestantism that accounts for 70% of all Latin American Evangelicos) has mushroomed to the point that eight countries are no longer majority Catholic, and one, Honduras, has become the region’s first in which Protestants outnumber Catholics (39% to 37%). And while Honduras is somewhat of a Latin American outlier at this point, the violence-plagued nation is well within the Central American norm in which the isthmus has become the first sub-region of Latin America to no longer be majority Catholic.
- Introduction
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- REGION: Road transport crisis triggered by Nicaraguan rebellion
- REGION: Costa Rica and El Salvador – exceptions in a pro-mining sub-region
- REGION: Is Central America turning Pentecostal?
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- CARIBBEAN POINTERS
- Economic Highlights