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Churches, Sects and Communities: Social Cohesion Recovered? 1
Author(s) -
BOT YVON LE
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
bulletin of latin american research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1470-9856
pISSN - 0261-3050
DOI - 10.1111/j.1470-9856.1999.tb00081.x
Subject(s) - protestantism , authoritarianism , modernity , community cohesion , sociology , religious studies , identity (music) , citizenship , cohesion (chemistry) , political science , law , democracy , philosophy , aesthetics , politics , chemistry , organic chemistry
– Should the upsurge of Protestantism be seen as a community movement with a religious dimension, or as the expression of sectarian, inward‐looking behaviour? Does it wipe out Indian specificity or does it rather help to rebuild community and identity? Does it strengthen citizenship or is it the bearer of an obscurantist authoritarianism? In the light of these questions, three waves of Protestant expansion are described in relation to missionary activity from the North. The relationship between Protestantism and modernity both at the level of the larger society and at the level of the local community are explored.