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• Winner of Christianity Today Book Award (Missions/Global Affairs) 2015

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This is a book for all serious students of World Christianity. That Latin America is a highly significant component in the new World Christianity no one doubts; but its inheritance from the old European Christendom sets it apart. Todd Hartch provides a fine sustained historical interpretation of the distinctively Latin American forms of the Catholic and Protestant traditions. This is a book that illuminates and stimulates. Those concerned with Christian history in other parts of the world will find it a boon. * Andrew F. Walls, University of Edinburgh and Akrofi-Christaller Institute for Theology, Mission and Culture, Ghana * An astute analysis. * International Bulletin of Missionary Research * In recent decades, Latin America has witnessed an upsurge of new forms of evangelical and Pentecostal Christianity, which has in turn provoked Catholic revival movements. Hartch's book gives us a valuable and accessible survey of these trends... * Christian Century * Wonderfully illuminates the events of the past half-century and provides a striking picture of the contemporary religious scene in Latin America. * Breakpoint *

An astute analysis. --International Bulletin of Missionary Research This is a book for all serious students of World Christianity. That Latin America is a highly significant component in the new World Christianity no one doubts; but its inheritance from the old European Christendom sets it apart. Todd Hartch provides a fine sustained historical interpretation of the distinctively Latin American forms of the Catholic and Protestant traditions. This is a book that illuminates and stimulates. Those concerned with Christian history in other parts of the world will find it a boon. --Andrew F. Walls, University of Edinburgh and Akrofi-Christaller Institute for Theology, Mission and Culture, Ghana

Wonderfully illuminates the events of the past half-century and provides a striking picture of the contemporary religious scene in Latin America. --Breakpoint In recent decades, Latin America has witnessed an upsurge of new forms of evangelical and Pentecostal Christianity, which has in turn provoked Catholic revival movements. Hartch's book gives us a valuable and accessible survey of these trends... --Christian Century An astute analysis. --International Bulletin of Missionary Research This is a book for all serious students of World Christianity. That Latin America is a highly significant component in the new World Christianity no one doubts; but its inheritance from the old European Christendom sets it apart. Todd Hartch provides a fine sustained historical interpretation of the distinctively Latin American forms of the Catholic and Protestant traditions. This is a book that illuminates and stimulates. Those concerned with Christian history in other parts of the world will find it a boon. --Andrew F. Walls, University of Edinburgh and Akrofi-Christaller Institute for Theology, Mission and Culture, Ghana [This book] make[s] important contributions to the process of nuancing and deepening portrayals of Latin American and Latino spirituality... valuable to anyone interested in the history of Latin American Christianities, both in Latin American and among US diaspora communities. --Theological Studies

This is a book for all serious students of World Christianity. That Latin America is a highly significant component in the new World Christianity no one doubts; but its inheritance from the old European Christendom sets it apart. Todd Hartch provides a fine sustained historical interpretation of the distinctively Latin American forms of the Catholic and Protestant traditions. This is a book that illuminates and stimulates. Those concerned with Christian history in other parts of the world will find it a boon. -Andrew F. Walls, University of Edinburgh and Akrofi-Christaller Institute for Theology, Mission and Culture, Ghana

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Todd Hartch teaches Latin American history and World Christianity at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, Kentucky. His research focuses on Christianity and missions in Latin America. His first book, Missionaries of the State: The Summer Institute of Linguistics, State Formation, and Indigenous Mexico examined the role of the Wycliffe Bible Translators in Mexico.

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