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Pentecostal Women in Colombia: Religious Change and the Status of Working-Class Women

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Cornelia B. Flora*
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology and A nthropology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506

Extract

There has been much discussion of the role of the church in social change in Latin America (Considine, 1964; D'Antonio and Pike, 1964; Haddox, 1965; Houtart and Pin, 1965; Jimenez, 1967; Lalive, 1968; Silvert, 1967; Willems, 1967). Recent arguments contrast a view that the church is integral and innovative in the development process (Vallier, 1970) with the view that the church is reactive and survival oriented, thus incapable of playing a leadership role in the process of social change (Mutchler, 1971). Both of these arguments specify the church as an instrumental force, interacting with other bureaucracies both internal and external to the country, in the process of development. The incursion of non-Catholic churches into Latin America is seen as important in influencing the established church as an actor in the change process, as well as serving as an initiator—or retarder—of change.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © University of Miami 1975

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