Protestantism in Guatemala Living in the New Jerusalem

Name: Protestantism in Guatemala Living in the New Jerusalem
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ISBN: 9780292728165

ISBN-10: 0292728166

ISBN-13: 9780292728165

Edition: 1998

Authors: Virginia Garrard-Burnett

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Guatemala has undergone an unprecedented conversion to Protestantism since the 1970s, so that thirty percent of its people now belong to Protestant churches, more than in any other Latin American nation. To illuminate some of the causes of this phenomenon, Virginia Garrard-Burnett here offers the first history in English of Protestantism in Guatemala, focusing specifically on the rise of non-Catholic Christianity in relation to Guatemala' ethnic and political history.Garrard-Burnett finds that while Protestant missionaries were early valued for their medical clinics, schools, translation projects, and especially for the counterbalance they provided against Roman Catholicism, Protestantism…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 1/1/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 264
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Introduction
"Order, Progress, and Protestants": The Beginning of Mission	p. 1
"Better Than Gunships": The Institutional Expansion of Missions	p. 21
Ethnicity and Mission Work	p. 47
Protestants and Politics	p. 66
The Revolutionary Years	p. 79
The Postrevolutionary Years	p. 100
The Earthquake and the Culture of Violence	p. 120
The Protestant President	p. 138
Epilogue	p. 162
Notes	p. 173
Bibliography	p. 203
Index	p. 227
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