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Coming of Age: A Reflection on Pentecostals, Politics and Popular Religion in Guatemala

Coming of Age: A Reflection on Pentecostals, Politics and Popular Religion in Guatemala 131 Coming of Age: A Reflection on Pentecostals, Politics and Popular Religion in Guatemala Dennis A. Smith* In this article we will look briefly at how Evangelicalism has grown in Guatemala, with a special emphasis on the Neo-Pentecostals. Then we will present a typology for distinguishing Neo-Pentecostals from the rest of the Evangelical Community. Finally, we will note some of the chal- lenges that the Pentecostal movement in Guatemala presents to the larger Christian community. Evangelicals are coming of age in Guatemala. More than 30% of Guatemala's 9.2 million citizens now identify themselves as evangeli- cals. Sporting some 300 denominations and more than 10,000 local con- gregations, Guatemalan evangelicals maintain the most wide spread autochthonous presence of any religious group in the country. A case in point is the fact that more than 80% of the Roman Catholic priests serv- ing in Guatemala are foreigners, while the majority of the Evangelical pastors (perhaps 95%) are Guatemalans. Another example may be noted , in the fact a permanent Evangelical presence may be found in most for- gotten comers of the country, places where the mass is celebrated only on rare occasions. Indeed, where there is one Evangelical congregation, within http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Pneuma Brill

Coming of Age: A Reflection on Pentecostals, Politics and Popular Religion in Guatemala

Pneuma , Volume 13 (1): 131 – Jan 1, 1991

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Brill
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© 1991 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0272-0965
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1570-0747
DOI
10.1163/157007491X00141
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131 Coming of Age: A Reflection on Pentecostals, Politics and Popular Religion in Guatemala Dennis A. Smith* In this article we will look briefly at how Evangelicalism has grown in Guatemala, with a special emphasis on the Neo-Pentecostals. Then we will present a typology for distinguishing Neo-Pentecostals from the rest of the Evangelical Community. Finally, we will note some of the chal- lenges that the Pentecostal movement in Guatemala presents to the larger Christian community. Evangelicals are coming of age in Guatemala. More than 30% of Guatemala's 9.2 million citizens now identify themselves as evangeli- cals. Sporting some 300 denominations and more than 10,000 local con- gregations, Guatemalan evangelicals maintain the most wide spread autochthonous presence of any religious group in the country. A case in point is the fact that more than 80% of the Roman Catholic priests serv- ing in Guatemala are foreigners, while the majority of the Evangelical pastors (perhaps 95%) are Guatemalans. Another example may be noted , in the fact a permanent Evangelical presence may be found in most for- gotten comers of the country, places where the mass is celebrated only on rare occasions. Indeed, where there is one Evangelical congregation, within

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Published: Jan 1, 1991

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