Neither Catholics nor Protestants

Fortuny, Patricia; Gooren, Henri; Garrard-Burnett, Virginia; Freston, Paul; Dove, Stephen C.

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“…In the 2002 national census, however, only 103,735 people self-identified as Mormons or 19.6 % of the number of baptized Mormons reported for 2002 (see Table 2). This suggests that the Mormon inactivity rate in Chile was around 80 %, which is not uncommon in Latin America (Gooren 2008, p. 363; Fortuny and Gooren 2014, p. 22). The average annual growth rate (AAGR) of the Mormon Church in Chile was an amazing 246 % for 1960-1970, 86.5 % for 1970-1992, 7.7 % for 1992-2000, 1.8 % for 2000-2002, and 0.9 % for 2002-2012 (see Table 3).…”

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The Growth and Development of Non-Catholic Churches in Chile

Gooren

2015

Review of Religious Research

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Different varieties of Protestantism and Pentecostalism have been very successful in Latin America, where Chile, Brazil, and most Central American countries are now 15-30 % Protestant. This article analyzes the growth and development of the ten major non-Catholic churches in Chile, one of the most Pentecostal countries of Latin America. It describes the history and growth of the following churches in the chronological order of their arrival or start: Anglicans, Methodists, Seventh-day Adventists, Baptists, Iglesia Metodista Pentecostal, Jehovah's Witnesses, Iglesia Evangélica Pentecostal, Assemblies of God, Church of God, and Latter-day Saints (Mormons). I end with an analysis of average annual growth rates for each church and for the entire Protestant community. Chile was famous for strong Protestant growth in the past, but there are few recent data on church growth. My main question here is: which non-Catholic churches in Chile have been most successful in terms of membership growth and when did this growth occur? The conclusion analyzes why non-Catholic churches in Chile have been successful in the past and why they currently struggle to grow.

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“… 6Chile is a country where the Jehovah's Witnesses have had about average success in Latin America so far. The population proportion of the total JW community in Chile is 1.04 %, compared to the Latin American average of 1.1 % (Fortuny and Gooren 2014, p. 28).…”

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The Growth and Development of Non-Catholic Churches in Chile

Gooren

2015

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Neither Catholics nor Protestants

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