Protestantism and modernity: the implications of religious change in contemporary rural Oaxaca.

From: Sociology of Religion | Date: December 22, 2003| Author: Gross, Toomas | Copyright information

The growing popularity of Protestant churches in Latin America is a phenomenon that is believed to have significant social, political and economic implications. It has even been suggested that Protestanasm is for Latin America "a vehicle of modernity." This paper studies the process of tell. change and its implications in the example of indigenous communities in Oaxaca, Mexico, and explores the alleged link between modernity and Protestantism. It will be argued that although Protestanasm in...

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