Format:
1 Online-Ressource (24 illus., 22 illus. in color. eReference)
Edition:
1st ed. 2019
ISBN:
9783319270784
Series Statement:
Religions of the World
Content:
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.)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783319270777
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-3-319-27077-7
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Encyclopedia of Latin American religions Cham : Springer, 2019 ISBN 9783319270777
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783319285719
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-319-27078-4
URL:
https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-319-27078-4
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