Protestantism in Guatemala Living in the New Jerusalem

Name: Protestantism in Guatemala Living in the New Jerusalem
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ISBN: 9780292728172

ISBN-10: 0292728174

ISBN-13: 9780292728172

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: $24.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 9/1/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Introduction



"Order, Progress, and Protestants": The Beginning of Mission



"Better Than Gunships": The Institutional Expansion of Missions



Ethnicity and Mission Work



Protestants and Politics



The Revolutionary Years



The Postrevolutionary Years



The Earthquake and the Culture of Violence



The Protestant President


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Index