Shopping Around: Questions about Latin American Conversions

Cleary, Edward L.

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“…We are always negotiating our identity. We are always exploring new options and we often desire novelty and stimulation (see Cleary 2004).…”

Section: Critique Of Conversion Models Paradigms and Methodsmentioning

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Conversion Studies, Pastoral Counseling, and Cultural Studies: Engaging and Embracing a New Paradigm

Rambo

2009

Pastoral Psychol

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This paper is an invitation to explore ways in which the study of conversion, pastoral counseling, and cultural studies may be mutually enriching. The author will provide a survey of contemporary conversion studies with the goal of encouraging pastoral counselors and psychotherapists to include the study of conversion as an integral part of their agenda. It will also suggest means by which the field of pastoral counseling may be beneficial to conversion scholars during a time when the study of conversion is not only enjoying a rebirth of interest, but also an astonishing transformation of meanings, methods, and paradigms. Since conversion studies, once the province of evangelical Christians and rather specialized scholars in the psychology and sociology of religion, now involve anthropologists, historians, theologians, religious studies researchers, and new approaches to the phenomenon within psychology and sociology have emerged, this paper will explore some of these developments. It is time for pastoral theologians and pastoral counselors to re-engage both the phenomenon and study of conversion. It will also argue for an interdisciplinary approach inclusive of various perspectives, one that focuses on specific domains of research and theoretical critique and refinement.The formative role of religion in both public and private life in many locations around the globe is no longer in doubt. With the resurgence of Islam in many parts of the world, the revitalization of Christianity in Africa, Latin America, and Asia, and the rise of a plethora of new religious movements, the rebirth of once moribund or static religions, and the awareness of these phenomena through almost instant communications media, scholars of religion are undertaking new approaches to the study of religion. How people change (indeed, how people are transformed) has become a topic of extensive debate and research.

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“…We are always negotiating our identity. We are always exploring new options and we often desire novelty and stimulation (see Cleary 2004).…”

Section: Critique Of Conversion Models Paradigms and Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…With few exceptions, these differences cause major problems for the convert. In some situations, the differences are so great that converts are expelled from the group (Cleary 2004;Glazner 2001).…”

Section: Religious and Theological Perspectives On Conversionmentioning

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Conversion Studies, Pastoral Counseling, and Cultural Studies: Engaging and Embracing a New Paradigm

Rambo

2009

Pastoral Psychol

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“…Bowen's (1996) was one of the earliest, showing that 43% of those raised in Mexican Protestant churches dropped out of them as adults. Cleary (2004) has presented statistical evidence of equally high rates of apostasy in Guatemala and Chile. Drawing on Guatemalan and Costa Rican survey data from the early 1990s, Steigenga and Cleary (2008b:13) also argue that it is fairly common for individuals to pass in and out of religious affiliation.…”

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Changing Faith: The Social Costs of Protestant Conversion in Rural Oaxaca

Gross

2012

Ethnos

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This article discusses conversion to Protestantism in the Zapotec communities of the State of Oaxaca in Southern Mexico. Conversion to Protestantism in these predominantly Catholic villages has a rupture effect on converts' relationships with their families as well as the Catholic majority. This transformation can be interpreted as a 'social cost', which influences religious choices made by individuals and the sustainability of their new religious affiliations. The cost is generally higher for native villagers than for migrants to the communities. Focusing on the adverse effects of conversion and scrutinising the choices of individuals who do not convert or who return to their previous faith contributes to a more nuanced understanding of religious change. The process is often far more complex and multi-directional at the local level than macro-level trends of rapid Protestant growth suggest.

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“…La misión continental es un nuevo esfuerzo para revitalizar la "nueva evangelización" que se había anunciado durante la cuarta conferencia general (en Santo Domingo, 1992), pues los procesos de transformación de la sociedad y de campo religioso que han caracterizado a Latinoamérica durante los últimos 70 años se han acelerado desde 1992. América Latina, que tradicionalmente se llamaba "el continente católico", es cada vez más pluralista y el monopolio religioso se ha roto; en primer lugar, porque del 15 al 20 por ciento de los latinoamericanos ha dejado de profesar esta religión y se convirtieron al protestantismo, en su gran mayoría de perfil (neo) pentecostal y evangélico (Cleary, 2004;Barrett & Co., 2001).…”

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El impacto de la renovación carismática en la Iglesia católica de Guatemala

Thorsen

2016

AECA

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Después de una introducción histórica al movimiento de la Renovación Carismática Católica (RCC) en América Latina, este artículo describe etnográficamente cómo el catolicismo carismático se desarrolla hoy en día en Guatemala, y cómo afecta la vida diaria de una parroquia católica en la Ciudad de Guatemala. Analiza el impacto de la RCC en los documentos de la Iglesia institucional y en la implementación de diversos planes pastorales a nivel nacional y latinoamericano. El artículo está basado principalmente en un trabajo de campo (junio-diciembre de 2009) en la Ciudad de Guatemala, más uno (de octubre de 2014 a enero de 2015) en Santiago Atitlán (Sololá, Guatemala).

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Shopping Around: Questions about Latin American Conversions

Cited by 28 publications

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Conversion Studies, Pastoral Counseling, and Cultural Studies: Engaging and Embracing a New Paradigm

Conversion Studies, Pastoral Counseling, and Cultural Studies: Engaging and Embracing a New Paradigm

Changing Faith: The Social Costs of Protestant Conversion in Rural Oaxaca

El impacto de la renovación carismática en la Iglesia católica de Guatemala

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