David Martin's Tongues of Fire: The Explosion of Protestantism in Latin America, Basil Blackwell, 1990, is the foundational sociological study of Pentecostal and evangelical Protestant growth across Latin America from the 1960s onward, a phenomenon Martin situates within the region's wider social and political transformation. Brazil holds the largest Pentecostal population anywhere in Latin America, the growth this atlas anchors this event to, though the movement Martin studies runs across the whole region, Guatemala and Chile prominent among the other cases.
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Foundational academic sociological study by one of the field's leading scholars of religion, still the most cited work on this topic; used for Pentecostal and evangelical growth across Latin America from the 1960s onward. NotesUsed for Pentecostal growth in Latin America, anchored to Brazil as the largest single case.
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AuthorDavid Martin
PublisherBasil Blackwell
Publication Year1990
Source Typeacademic monograph
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This source names Americas directly: "David Martin's Tongues of Fire: The Explosion of Protestantism in Latin America, Basil Blackwell, 1990, is the foundational sociological study of Pentecostal and evangelical Protestant growth across..."
Source Tongues of Fire: The Explosion of Protestantism in Latin AmericaDavid Martin
This source names Chile directly: "across the whole region, Guatemala and Chile prominent among the other cases."
Source Tongues of Fire: The Explosion of Protestantism in Latin AmericaDavid Martin
This source names Protestantism directly: "Tongues of Fire: The Explosion of Protestantism in Latin America, Basil Blackwell, 1990, is the foundational sociological study of Pentecostal and evangelical Protestant growth across Latin America..."
Source Tongues of Fire: The Explosion of Protestantism in Latin AmericaDavid Martin
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