Encyclopedia of Latin American Religions

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gooren, Henri (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Religions of the World
• Subjects: Religion.; Culture-Study and teaching.; Cultural studies.; Religious Studies, general.; Regional and Cultural Studies.; Cultural Studies.
• Physical Description: 24 illus., 22 illus. in color. eReference. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783319270784
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-27078-4

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.).